New strategies for developing Beijing’s Historic Urban Assets
Organized by ‘Beijing Design Week’, Dashila(b) and Capital M, the event counted with Kenya Hara, designer from Nippon Design Center and director of design for MUJI, Fang Zhenning, curator of the Chinese pavilion of the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale, Liang Jingyu, architect from Approach Architecture and Giannantonio Bongiorno and Luis Aguirre, curators of Hutopolis.
Aric Chen, BJDW creative director was the moderator of the debate in which issues related to the preservation, the soft-urbanism interventions, and the economy of this ancient and distinctive Beijing district were discussed.
