International Seminar on the Identity and Development in the Global Era. A Comparative Approach: Asia & Europe

From http://www.casaasia.cat/actividad/detalle?id=212412 (in Catalan)

On November 25th, 2013 and on December 2nd, 2013 at 9 am the School of Architecture of Barcelona (Diagonal Avenue 649-651), the Tsinghua University (北京市海淀区清华大学) and Casa Àsia are organizing a free international seminar entitled "Identity and Development in the Global Era. A Comparative Approach: Asia & Europe".

The goal of this seminar is to study the identity of extreme land developments by comparing situations from Asia and Europe.

Programme

9.00 h - 9.15 h Welcome address by Ferran Sagarra, Director of the School of Architecture of Barcelona.

9.15 h - 9.45 h Seminar opening by Yan Banghua, Chinese Consulate-General in Barcelona

9.45 h - 10.30 h Barcelona & Beijing’ Identities Differences and Similarities, by Menene Gras Balaguer, Director of Culture and Exhibitions at Casa Àsia.

10.30 h - 12.00 h The contemporary Chinese landscape design, Zhu Yufan’s works: Kuangshan Garden of Chenshan Botanical Garden in Shanghai and others – Part 1, Zhu Yufhan, landscape architect and Deputy Chair of Landscape Architecture at Tsinghua University, China

12.00 h - 12.30 h Coffee break

12.30 h - 14.00 h The contemporary Chinese landscape design, Zhu Yufan’s works: Kuangshan Garden of Chenshan Botanical Garden in Shanghai and others – Part 2, Zhu Yufhan, landscape architect and Deputy Chair of Landscape Architecture at Tsinghua University, China

14.00 h - 14.15 h Open discussion with Zhu Yufhan

15.30 h - 16.30 h The public space challenge in Chinese cities, urban landscape and spatial culture in Shanghai, by Maria José Masnou, architect and teacher of the Master's Course on Oriental Studies of the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) of the the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)

16.30 h - 16.45 h Open discussion with Maria José Masnou

16.45 h - 17.45 h Presentation on the course of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) Identity and Development in the Global Era. A Comparative Approach: Asia & Europe by Miquel Vidal, doctor on architecture, professor at the Urban and Territorial Planning Department, of the master on Landscape Architecture, founder and director of Ginna Kanda - International Forum for Extreme Cultural Landscapes Development - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

17.45 h - 18.00 h Open discussion with Miquel Vidal

18.30 h - 19.30 h Recorded presentation Chinese Tradition is a Distinctive Part of Landscape Architecture in the World (in Chinese with English subtitles) by Meng Zhaozhen, professor of the School of Landscape Architecture of the Beijing Forestry University and vice-president of the Chinese Society of Landscape Architecture

18.00 h - 19.30 h Closing remarks by Miquel Vidal and Zhu Yufhan