Title: “Incremental Urbanism” Workshop

Time: The workshop runs from 5th May to 31st May.

The site of research the workshop chose is Mei Clan Compound in Taishan of Guangdong Province. The field trip will be conducted between 11th May and 12th May (The students require to stay one night in Taishan). The tutors will meet the students twice a week.

Introduction to Workshop:

Incremental Urbanism Intensive Studios will investigate the informal urban renewal of Jiangmen countryside. Selected sites will display locally-initiated user appropriations on existing collective forms, beginning with Part 1: Mei Clan Compound.

How can we understand the conditions of time and change, extreme hybridity that challenge current conceptual frameworks and practices? The purpose of the studio is to engage this question and begin by observing through an “incremental” lens. Students will be introduced to a new methodology of reading urban form – a nuanced reading of the existing collective built forms with attention to the space between things and the syntax of part-to-part connections. Space is read not as cohesive structure but as an unstable series of association in continual transformation, constantly reorganizing itself through processes of both expansion and retraction, an urban realm that is capable of anticipating and hosting change over time. 

Recruitment notice：

Open to 20 undergrad and graduate students from SCUT School of Architecture in the Architecture and Landscape Architecture programs. Undergrad students must be in their third year or above. Please send your resume and portfolio (file size less than 10mb) to email elainekwong@126.com Eligible candidates will be announced on 15 April.