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| <nettime-ann> Book Launch: The Chinese Dream, 8 Oct. |
. THE CHINESE DREAM a society under construction Book Launch - lecture evening October 8, 2008 Doors open: 19:30 – Start programme: 20:00, admission free Location: V2_, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam www.v2.nl WHAT IF YOU BUILT THE WHOLE MASS OF WESTERN EUROPE IN 20 YEARS? WHAT IF 400 MILLION FARMERS THEN MOVED IN? WHAT WOULD IT LOOK LIKE? HOW WOULD IT WORK? WOULD YOU BE ABLE TO GO TO SLEEP AT NIGHT? AND IF YOU DID, WOULD YOU DREAM OF SOMEWHERE ELSE …? On the occasion of the Dutch book launch of The Chinese Dream – a society under construction (010 Publishers) V2_ will host a lecture evening that aims to connect the dots between China’s social, urban and economic transformations. Three authors of The Chinese Dream will focus on new cities in China as a common indicator of a radically new society under construction. Architect and theorist Neville Mars, writer and economic journalist Adrian Hornsby and media researcher Martijn de Waal present ‘Triptych on China - Power, Progress and Prosperity’. In the second part, Annuska Pronkhorst from Crimson Architectural Historians will introduce their upcoming China research project ‘New Towns’ and Wouter Vanstiphout will participate in the panel discussion. The explosive process of urban developments in China, and the social, economic, and cultural context in which these take place, inspired Neville Mars (an architect from Amsterdam) to move to China in 2005 to do research there. To this end, he founded the ‘Dynamic City Foundation’, where architects, designers and sociologists from China and other countries collaborate. The results of this collaboration have been documented in the book The Chinese Dream - a society under construction, mapping China’s urbanisation and emerging society. Starting off with an extrapolation of expected trends, the book then presents a wide range of proposals and plans to outline a more sustainable future. Panel: Wouter Vanstiphout, Adrian Hornsby, Martijn de Waal, Neville Mars. Moderated by Cambridge energy specialist and urban criticaster Louis Coulomb. www.v2.nl www.dynamiccity.org This event will be streamed live at http://live.v2.nl <http://live.v2.nl/> All content of the book on the wiki www.BURB.TV <http://www.burb.tv/> THE CHINESE DREAM a society under construction Neville Mars , Adrian Hornsby and the DCF 010 Publishers, July 2008 784 pages, full colour, hardcover Price € 49.50 ISBN 978 90 6450 652 9 For more information, please contact Alex Adriaansens: Alex@v2.nl <mailto:Alex@v2.nl> T +31 (0)10 206 7272 _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list nettime-ann@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann