Imagining the Immediate Present: Responsive Approaches to the Investigation of Things. (1st November 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dou, Pingping; Lu, Andong; Feng, Lu
• Other Names: Lu Andong guestEditor.; Dou Pingping guestEditor.
• Is Part Of: Architectural design. Volume 88:Number 6(2018)
• Page Start: 116
• Page End: 123
• Publication Date: 2018-11-01
• Subjects: Keyang Tang -- Objego -- Gewu Workshop -- Nanjing -- Xinggang Li -- China Architecture Design & Research Group -- 'scenery and geometry' -- Instant Arcadia installation -- Archaeology of Space -- Yao Ding -- Tianjin University -- Andong Lu -- Cloud Wall -- Boundary Mapping -- Ling Zhou -- Playfulness -- Li Zhang -- Yu Garden -- Bin Zhang -- Urban Farm Reclusion -- Jiang Feng -- Ladder -- Yimin Guo -- Wajirō Kon -- Modernology -- Lu Feng -- Translucency -- OCT Contemporary Art Terminal – OCAT Shanghai; 729
• DOI: 10.1002/ad.2374
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-8504

Abstract

Abstract : Grand theories cannot always provide the answer to local problems. In line with a tenet of neo‐Confucian philosophy, Guest‐EditorsPingping Dou and Andong Lu and architect and researcherLu Feng together co‐convened the Gewu Workshop in Nanjing in summer 2015 to showcase different types of enquiry. The 10 invited participants, ranging from architects to historians and theorists, each offered their analysis of and vision for a disused area on the outskirts of historic Nanjing. Displayed in a subsequent exhibition, their proposals encourage an investigative and place‐based mentality in dealing with such complex urban sites.