CITIES GROW IN DIFFERENCE for URBANUS & UABB — The 2017 edition of the Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism & Architecture was situated in the historic neighborhood of Nantou Old Town. This area, a tight network of streets and alleyways, is one of the city’s urban villages — a byproduct of intense urbanization in China, where diverse, mostly lower-income residents live in densely packed, low-rise concrete structures. The architects and curators of the exhibition located it here to call attention to the dismantling of these neighborhoods as the city continues to develop and gentrify. Our approach for the identity and exhibition graphics highlighted this lack of certainty and consistency by rearranging itself in every application, a strategy which also helped accommodate a wide range of spaces, substrates and physical installation types.
For Urbanus:
Yan Meng & Xiaodu Liu, Curators
Ye Zhu, Co-Curator
Yujun Yin, Assistant Curator
Common Name, Graphic Design
Sure Design, Production Design