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Lecture Go West at Tongji University, May 19
How does Kunming deal with its history? Where in Shijiazhuang can you find farmers? What is the relation between modern architecture and urban villages in Lanzhou? The Go West Project tries to answer...
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Go West in seminar: “Design for Daily Life”, 17/9, Shanghai
(FLTR: Bert de Muynck / Pan Jianfeng / Daan Roggeveen / Wiki Somers) Go West participated in the Dutch Design Dialogue seminar: “Design for Daily Life” on Friday 17 September at the Dutch Design...
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Sunday 6 March, 11AM, Go West lecture at Glamour Bar Shanghai
This weekend, we will read from our book for the first time in our hometown Shanghai. Sunday, 11AM, we will be part of the Shanghai Literary Festival, where we will read and show images about an empty...
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Chinese urbanism in Holland
Go West was invited by the International New Town Institute and CASLA to do an exhibition about our work in Almere. Together with research offices Dynamic City Foundation and Urban Language we will...
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Workshop at Design Academy Eindhoven
On April 6, Go West did a lecture and workshop for master students at Design Academy Eindhoven. The workshop was aimed at finding new solutions for the use of urban villages and the programming of...
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Exploding China: Chinese Cities in Amsterdam City Theatre
On September 13, the City Theatre of Amsterdam will host the program Exploding China – China’s New Megacities on unknown Chinese megacities like Wuhan, Shijiazhuang and Chongqing. These cities are...
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Go West at Beijing International Book Fair
The first sneak preview of our book How the City Moved to Mr Sun – China’s New Megacities will be held at the 2011 Beijing International Book Fair. Our book is part of an exhibition of Dutch books on...
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Book launch and exhibition in London
Last Thursday, we launched How the City Moved to Mr Sun in The Gopher Hole Gallery in London during the London Design Festival. The book launch consisted of a presentation and a Q&A, and a small...
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Launching the book in Shanghai
Last Sunday, 16 October we launched our book in Shanghai’s Glamour Bar. After an introduction by the Consul General of the Netherlands, mr Peter Potman, we shared stories and ideas with an audience of...
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7 November: lecture HKU, Shanghai
As part of the lecture series ‘Under the Skin’ we will present our book in the University of Hong Kong, Shanghai Study Centre on November 7. In a lecture called Canary Wharf in Central China – The...
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Lecture at TU Delft
On Tuesday 29 November, Michiel opened a lecture series about China on Delft University of Technology with an introduction on China’s emerging megacities. The university published a stream showing the...
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Go West and Urbanus lecture at TU Delft, 7 June
With cities all over the world growing at an ever increasing speed, the issue of providing affordable housing is of global importance. How can the large scale demand for decent housing be...
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Co-lecture w. Duncan Hewitt (Newsweek), 26 June
Tuesday June 26, The The Hopkins China Forum and Young China Watchers organize a co-lecture of Daan Roggeveen (Go West) along with Duncan Hewitt, Shanghai Correspondent for Newsweek. The talk will...
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Go West goes USA
The coming weeks, we’ll be doing a series of lectures in multiple cities in the United States about our book How the City Moved to Mr Sun – China’s New Megacities. China is creating the largest urban...
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Informal Market Worlds II Forum
Next Thursday, November 8th, Go West will participate in the two-day Informal Market Worlds II Forum, a research forum on the trading places of urban informality, co-organised by the University of...
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