Horizontal Hong Kong: A Paradigm Shift

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.

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.