自发中国——物品、建筑和城市在中国的潜意识发明

Informal China - the Subliminal Inventions of Objects/Architecture/Urbanism in China

涵芬楼书店于6月18日（星期六）上午10：00—11：30在书店二层举办“《城市中国》  走进  涵芬楼” 学术系列活动。邀请设计师与评论家 姜珺先生 给大家讲述题为 “自发中国——物品、建筑和城市在中国的潜意识发明”的讲座。本次活动由《城市中国》杂志社主办，涵芬楼书店和搜狐读书协办。

［姜珺简历］

姜珺，设计师与评论家。长期以各种方式从事城市研究和实验创作，2003年下旬在广州成立并主持下划线(Underline)课题组，考察城市动态对设计现象的驱动关系，潜在秩序的显见结构以及自动生成的设计机制；2004年底开始着手主编《城市中国》(UrbanChina)杂志，并同时撰写编辑《超中国》一书。1974年生于湖北，本科和硕士分别毕业于上海和北京，现工作和生活在广州。

Jiang Jun, designer and critic, has been working on urban research and experimental study, exploring the interrelationship between design phenomenon and urban dynamic.  He has been the editor-in-chief of Urban China Magazine since the end of 2004, in the mean time working on the book <Hi-China>.  Born in Hubei in 1974, got bachelor’s degree in Tongji University in Shanghai and master’s degree in Tsinghua University in Beijing, now teaching in Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts.

［演讲内容］

研究中国必须要研究其控制方式。因为历史上恐怕再难找到像中国文化这样，在几千年中如此事无巨细地讲究控制，不仅是在政策和意识形态上，并且也是物质化和空间化的：从城市规划的宏观规则，建造营造的中观法式，到生活用品的每一个微观细节。然而过去一百年的变迁又提供了一个悖论：一方面中央集权的控制性没有因为朝代更替而变化，另一方面，这种控制由于上个世纪前期的动荡和战乱，中期的天灾人祸和后期的经济改革交织在一起，呈现出严密和松散的双重性。它们构成了我们今天的中国的两个面。
自发中国是相对于官方话语中的正统中国的另一个面。在制度性的粗糙和局部性的失控中，自发者们通过一种自下而上的方式，出于本能地对环境加以改造；与设计师的程序不同，自发者的改造是随机的、非线性的和自我组织的，因而能够更具弹性，更能适合环境的变化。在设计逐渐沦为有支付能力的精英和特权阶层的服务性行业的今天，自发，作为一个隐性的传统和中国的另一面，在当代中国社会趋向高度管理和有序的进程中，在众多被预制的空间和预设的生活模式之中，被逐步淡化。
《自发中国》将参加6月于鹿特丹举办的《中国当代》建筑展，展览将同时呈现另一个更加正统的中国，包括她在自觉性设计方面的自省和成就，以及她有意识打造的梦想——一个与全球保持同步的中国；而《城市中国》则力图从另一个角度展开中国现实的鲜活图景：那些位于社会底层的人们和他们的自发创造，以及这种创造所代表的中国。

Research about China must study her control approach, because in human history, you cannot find another one like Chinese culture, which has been entirely controlling the citizen抯 life not only in political and conscious level, but also the substantial and spatial realm coving from macro-scale urban planning, through the traditional architectural construction regulation, to every sophisticated detail of daily life since thousands of years ago. Ironically another paradox was generated through last hundred years: at one hand the fully control from the central government has never ever changed along different dynasties; at the other hand, the control appeared both rigorous and loose nature through the vibration and war last century, the nature disaster and civil tragedy thereafter, and the economic reform most recently. All of these build up the two sides of China today.
Inform China holds a gesture against the formal China out of the official campaign. In the context of constitutional roughness and partial out-of-control, the Informal Creators rebuild our environment spontaneously through a bottom-up approach. Different from the formal design, the construction of the Informal Creators is random, un-linear and self-organized. Consequently, it is more flexible and adaptive to the environment change. Today design emerges as the service consumed more and more by current Chinese elites capable to pay the fee and those from privileged classes. In this context, Informal, as an invisible side of China, is fading out envisaging the highly control and systematic procedure of Chinese society, and the huge amount of preserved sites and ready-to-use living pattern.
<Informal China> is going to take part in Contemporary China exhibition in Rotterdam, in which the Formal China will be presented, including her self-examination and achievement in formal design realm, as well as the dream she tends to shape - a powerful China synchronized to the global pulse. However, Urban China is keen to unfold another vivid image from different angel - those living at the bottom of the pyramid and their informal creation, which inevitably represent another considerable voice from China.

 

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