Horizontal Hong Kong: A Paradigm Shift
“Horizontal Hong Kong: A Paradigm Shift” an international exhibition by Dr. Gianni Talamini and colleagues at The City University of Hong Kong and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. Displaying an emerging model of urbanisation, the exhibition will present the investigation of worldwide non-hierarchical territories through the prism of theories, scenarios, and design strategies. Horizontal urbanisation is a constitutive process of an emerging form of dwelling that builds upon a close interlink of urban infrastructures and bioregional ecologies, and in which spatial relationships are fundamental agents for economic reproduction. As a place-dependent process, it gives rise to infinite variations, six of which are investigated and illustrated by this project.
“Horizontal Hong Kong: A Paradigm Shift” an international exhibition by Dr. Gianni Talamini and colleagues at The City University of Hong Kong and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. Displaying an emerging model of urbanisation, the exhibition will present the investigation of worldwide non-hierarchical territories through the prism of theories, scenarios, and design strategies. Horizontal urbanisation is a constitutive process of an emerging form of dwelling that builds upon a close interlink of urban infrastructures and bioregional ecologies, and in which spatial relationships are fundamental agents for economic reproduction. As a place-dependent process, it gives rise to infinite variations, six of which are investigated and illustrated by this project.
- 2020
- Grantee: Gianni Talamini
Dr Gianni Talamini is an assistant professor at the City University of Hong Kong, where he teaches urban design and architecture. Gianni does research on the notions of organic urbanism, spatial semiotics, and the relationship between society and space. He works for an environmentally innocuous, culturally leavened, and spatially just society.
- Organisation: Paola Viganò, Beau Architects, Qinyi Zhang, Federico Cucker Martorell
The “Horizontal Hong Kong: A Paradigm Shift” team is multinational and multidisciplinary. Paola Viganò is currently a professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne where she founded and is directing the Laboratory of Urbanism (Lab-U). She investigated the notion of “Horizontal Metropolis” through several international exhibition and scientific publications. Qinyi Zhang is an architect and urbanist working at Studio Paola Viganò and a postdoctoral researcher at the Lab-U and Habitat Research Center in EPFL. Qinyi significantly contributed to the analysis and development of the cases and the materials presented in the exhibition. Federico Cucker Martorell is an architect and project manager with international background and experience, currently based in London. Federico, a Hong Kong permanent resident, is contributing to the management and organisation of the exhibition. BEAU architects are an architecture office based in Hong Kong and renowned for the curation and design of high-profile art and architecture exhibitions; they are curating the exhibition design.