In this lecture, Japanese architect Kenya Hara and Dashila(b) Director and renowned Chinese architect Liang Jingyu will discuss the “Dashilar VI Project.”Hara’s restoration of Beijing’s old Dashilar area provides an outstanding model for urban restoration. His “Dashilar VI Project” encompases 1.5 square kilometers, crafting a distinct identity for the area that transforms its low-rise historical architecture into a modern commercial and cultural zone. By attracting new residents, the restoration project both protects the area’s cultural legacy and develops it commercially.

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Kenya Hara emphasizes the design of both objects and experiences. In 2000, he produced the exhibition "RE-DESIGN: Daily Products of the 21st Century,” which showed astonishing design found in the context of the ordinary and the everyday. He has organized exhibitions around Asia as well, including the traveling show "DESIGNING DESIGN: Kenya Hara 2011 China Exhibition" that started in Beijing in 2011. He is the author of a number of books, including Designing Design and White.

Architect and urbanist Liang Jingyu is the founder and chief architect of Approach Architecture Studio, Beijing. Recent projects include the Iberia Centre for Contemporary Art (Beijing), Minsheng Art Museum (Shanghai), and many others. He won the WA Chinese Architecture Award in 2008. Liang participated in the International Architecture Biennale, São Paulo, Brazil (2005) and the China Contemporary exhibition in Rotterdam, the Netherlands (2006), and the Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism (2007). Liang was a curator of 2007’s “Get It Louder” exhibition and the exhibition designer for 2009’s Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism.

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