closing forum

Envisioning Urban Agriculture Closes Shenzhen Biennale

03/01/2016

2015 UABB closing ceremony is underway. Image: UABB

Barry Wilson was a guest speaker in the closing forum: Envisioning Urban Agriculture and Ecology for PRD 2.0 of the 6th Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism Architecture (UABB).

The forum was focused on exploring the extent and ways urban agriculture being integrated into cities, the possible existence of the genuinely operational edible aqua-landscapes that could be visually and experimentally appealing within cities, and the specific possibilities and challenges for future ecological urban visions for Shekou, Deep bay, Shenzhen, Hong Kong.

Speakers and panelists were as follows:

Dr. Gordon S. Maxwell. Image: UABB

K. C. Ho. Image: UABB

Keynote Speech Dr. Gordon S. Maxwell | Professor | Royal Society of Biology and FLS.

Integrated Management of Enclosed Watershed: The Cases of Tolo Harbour and Shenzhen Bay K. C. Ho | Dean | School of Science & Technology, OUHK

Green / Blue Connectivity and the Type & Make Up of Amenity Planting Barry Wilson | Director | Barry Wilson Project Initiatives

Implications and Projections of Floating Fields Project Thomas Chung | School of Architecture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Thomas Chung, from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, specifically introduced his Floating Fields project, which integrated productive aqua-edible landscape with eco-water cycle as public space at the Biennale Venue and speculated on a place-based, bio-social urbanism, aspiring to organic living within part of the PRD 2.0 vision.

The Floating Fields project received the Biennale Organizing Committee Prize at the closing ceremony.

Organized by Shenzhen Municipal Government at the former Dacheng Flour Factory in Shekou, Shenzhen, the sixth Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism Architecture began on December 4th, 2015 and came to an end on February 28th, 2016.

Barry Wilson. Image: UABB

Thomas Chung. Image: UABB

Floating fields. Image: UABB

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The shenzhen bi-city biennale of urbanism \ architecture is currently the only biennial exhibition in the world to be based exclusively on the set themes of urbanism and urbanization. coorganized by the two neighboring and closely interacting cities of shenzhen and hong kong, UABB situates itself within the regional context of the rapidly urbanizing pearl river delta, concerns itself with globally common urban issues, and extensively communicates and interacts with the wider public.

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Organic foods provided after the forum. Image: UABB