La conférence se tiendra exceptionnellement à l’Ecole Nationale d’Architecture de Saint Etienne
China has been experiencing the rapidest urbanisation in the last decade, the hinterland of China has become a front line of this evolution. A huge transformation is taking place in these enormous lands. All the cities are becoming more and more identical to one another, and their culture and identity disappears in the urbanisation driven from capital investments. Following the investments as they move from the city to the countryside, we have to ask ourselves "what will happen to the enormous variety of hinterland cultures in the next decade ?" We are afraid and do not want to see the Chinese countryside become the same, exactly like those of cities in the last decade. After the research on Russian Hinterland, directed by Rem Koolhaas at Strelka Institute and AMO, Professor WU will share what is happening in the Chinese Hinterland with his researches and practices, as they address an angle which differs from the strictly urban.
