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SCROLL: 
COLLECTIVE FORMS IN CHINA


Seoul Biennale for Architecture and Urbanism, 2019
Venice Architecture Biennale, 2018 
Beijing Design Week, 2016 

Collective Forms in China investigates how national collectivisation in the 1950s created rural people’s communes and urban work-unit systems—structures that laid the foundations for many of today’s urban challenges. Despite extensive policy reforms since 1978, the socio-spatial design of these systems continues to shape access to public infrastructure and services, while also fostering resilient forms of governance and community-building. 

The scroll here blends and condenses archives, memories, ethnographic documentation, and grounded speculations, through constructing layers and layers of juxtaposed conditions in continuity. 

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PUBLICATION
     
     Collectivisation, Paradox, and Resistance: The Architecture of People’s Commune in China, The Journal of Architecture, 2022

     The Socio-spatial Design of Community and Governance: Interdisciplinary Urban Design in China, Springer, 2020


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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The project was supported by the British Academy, the Architectural Association Wuhan Visiting School (2015–17) and Huazhong University of Science and Technology School of Architecture and Urban Planning. 

Exhibition Team: 
Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism: Jingru (Cyan Cheng) with Sam Jacoby
Venice Architecture Biennale: Jingru (Cyan Cheng) with Sam Jacoby, Xiaomao Cao and Huace Yang
Beijing Design Week: Jingru (Cyan Cheng) with Xiaomao Cao, Rongwei Yuan, Ting Yan and Yating Song
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Scroll installation exhibited as part of ‘Across Chinese Cities - The Community’, at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2018
Scroll installation as part of ‘Baitasi Remade’, at Beijing Design Week in 2016

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