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SUMMARY:Memory and the city
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DESCRIPTION:Filippo De Pieri\, Politecnico di Torino\nUrbanism as heritage
 \, urbanism as public memory: an ongoing research on La Chaux-de-Fonds and
  Le Locle\nby Filippo De Pieri\n\n(CANCELLED) Alternative modernity: silen
 t departures that contemporary Chinese architecture takes\nby Zhang Li\n\n
 ATTENTION: due to unpredictable political issues\, Mr Zhang Li must be in 
 China on the 31st and has to cancel his lecture. The lecture is reschedule
 d for the next academic semester. We are sorry for the inconvenience. \n\n
 Lecture in the framework of the Institute for Area and Global Studies and 
 the EDAR course on the study of urban memory. The course explores the ways
  in which memory studies have influenced research and education in the fie
 ld of architecture and urban studies from WW2 to the present day.\n\nLectu
 res followed by an aperitif.\n_____________________________\n\nUrbanism as
  heritage\, urbanism as public memory: an ongoing research on La Chaux-de-
 Fonds and Le Locle\nby Filippo De Pieri\n\nThe recent\, joint inscription 
 of Le Locle and La Chaux-de-Fonds on the World Heritage List poses some re
 levant questions to urban historians. The notion of “watchmaking town pl
 anning” that was coined for this occasion seems to suggest that a fundam
 ental unity existed between the spatial organisation of these two Swiss ci
 ties and the social organisation of their industrial communities. Focusing
  on an all-too-famous 1835 plan for La Chaux-de-Fonds\, I will argue that 
 the scant available sources tell us a different story and that richer\, su
 btler forms of public memory are needed in order to address the challenges
  faced by these and other post-Unesco cities.\nThe lecture presents some r
 esults of a joint research project on “Memory and the city” currently 
 being carried out by Politecnico di Torino and EPFL.\n\nFilippo De Pieri i
 s Associate Professor of Architectural History\, Politecnico di Torino\, I
 taly.\nVisiting Professor\, Collège des Humanités\, EPFL\n______________
 _______________\n\n(CANCELLED) Alternative modernity: silent departures th
 at contemporary Chinese architecture takes\nby Zhang Li\n\nIn the last 30 
 years of Chinese urbanisation\, three modes of modernity can be witnessed:
   received modernity\, reflective modernity\, and alternative modernity. 
 Of the three modes\, received modernity is the continuing of the adoption 
 of imported ideas. Reflective modernity tries to give correction to receiv
 ed modernity by rethinking identity. If reflective modernity makes a thoug
 htful critique on the blindness of received modernity\, alternative modern
 ity goes even further. It suspends the domination of megacities\, goes bac
 k deep into the Chinese rural areas where the first traces of home-grown m
 odernity originated\, and tries to explore the scenarios of modernity emer
 ging again from the Chinese countryside. It also argues that rural areas c
 an actually be a new field of both technological and cultural innovations.
 \n\nZhang Li is Professor of Architecture and Associate Dean\, School of A
 rchitecture\, Tsinghua University\, China.\nVisiting Professor\, Departmen
 t of Architecture and Design\, Politecnico di Torino.\nFounding Partner an
 d Director of Design at Team Minus\, Beijing.\nEditor-in-chief\, “World 
 Architecture”\n_____________________________
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