Infrastructures and Landscape

The Theme: Infrastructures and Landscape

Location: Wenzhou’s “New City Reading” Multicultural Exchange Center

The Speaker: Ashish Joshi, Christian Nolf, David Vardy, Evan Saarinen, Harry Den Hartog, Linnea Moore, Nicola Beck, Ron Henderson, Spencer Steenblik, Toby Michelena, Vincent Peu Duvallon, Xiaodong Zheng, Zhang Xingu

Time: Saturday of 07^th December 9:00

The School of Architecture and Design of Wenzhou-Kean University held a symposium on the theme of “Infrastructures and Landscape” on December 7. This symposium specially invited well-known academic circles and practitioners at home and abroad, architects, designers, environmental scientists, and urban planners to discuss important issues of urban design, which is one of the event series of “making design public” hosted by WKU Michael Graves College. The seminar aims to improve the living environment of the city by mobilizing multidisciplinary expertise in architecture, graphic design, interior design, and industrial design.

This symposium focuses on the infrastructure in modern cities. Through the in-depth exchanges among the guests, it explores the status of basic design as the last public connection in the city, discusses the special conceptualization of rural landscape through the landscape research field, and the combination of landscape urbanization, regional and urban planning, landscape design and architecture Means to design modern infrastructure and solve the urban problem of recycling infrastructure as public space.

Lecturer introductions, which are ranking by initials. Ashish Joshi, who is a senior urban planner and designer. Christian Nolf, who is an associate professor of Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. David Vardy, who is a lecturer at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. Evan Saarinen, who is a lecturer at Wenzhou-Kean University. Harry Den Hartog, who is an architect and urban designer and lecturer at Tongji University. Linnea Moore, who is a lecturer at Wenzhou-Kean University. Nicola Beck, who is an architect and founding partner of NBAX. Ron Henderson, who is a director of landscape architecture program at Illinois Institute of Technology. Spencer Steenblik, who is a lecturer at Wenzhou-Kean University. Toby Michelena, who is an assistant professor of biology and environmental sciences at Wenzhou-Kean University. Vincent Peu Duvallon, who is an assistant professor and executive director of the School of Public Architecture at Wenzhou-Kean University. Xiaodong Zheng, who is a Vice-Chancellor at Wenzhou-Kean University. Zhang Xingu, who is a campus landscape architect at Wenzhou-Kean University.

Image| Haozhuo Wu, Miao Zhang, Qinshuo Wang

Writer| Haozhuo Wu