Exhibition – John Thackara https://thackara.com designing for life Mon, 19 Sep 2022 14:02:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Exhibition: Urban-Rural, Shanghai https://thackara.com/portfolio-items/exhibition-urban-rural-shanghai-2019/ Sun, 28 Aug 2022 08:47:38 +0000 https://new.thackara.com/?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=10643 Is the growth of cities over? In November 2019, the Zhangyan Harvests Festival, near Shanghai, explored diverse aspects of China’s emerging rural economy. As a festival centre piece, I curated an exhibition called “Urban-Rural”. It brought together projects to do with Soils, Making, Feeding, Clothing, Dwelling, and Learning. Just before the opening, I made this [continue ...]

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Is the growth of cities over? In November 2019, the Zhangyan Harvests Festival, near Shanghai, explored diverse aspects of China’s emerging rural economy. As a festival centre piece, I curated an exhibition called “Urban-Rural”. It brought together projects to do with Soils, Making, Feeding, Clothing, Dwelling, and Learning. Just before the opening, I made this short – and 100% unofficial – film in which I show you around the exhibition.

Urban-Rural Exhibition – slideshare

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