We deliver preparatory readings and lectures in four class meetings before the trip. There are also two orientation courses through Study Abroad. In a post-travel course meeting, students share a five-page research paper on a topic of their choice from the readings, lectures or trip in tandem with a visual presentation that involves photo, video, webcam, podcast or drawing. Course content focuses on urbanism in a post-Olympic Beijing via architecture, urban planning and visual art, overlayed with earlier incarnations of previous shifts such as landscape scrolls and the Opera.
Itinerary includes:
Summer Palace, with a lecture on the landscape architecture of the Summer Palace
Old Summer Palace-Yu Yuan, ravished by Imperial Forces during the Boxer Rebellion
Urban Planning and Exhibition Museum
Dashanzi 798 District, where we'll see factories turned art galleries in the former East German factory district designed in the original Bauhause style (and while there, visit Ullens Art Center, Longmarch Gallery, Pace Beijing and other international galleries).
Visit artist's studios (including Wang Qingsong) and talk with them personally about their experience and work in Cao Chang Di art district.
Additionally, you'll see Water Cube, Olympic Park Bird's Nest, Stephen Holl's Linked Hybrids, CCTV, Coal Mountain above the Forbidden City, Drum and Bell Towers, the Great Wall and Chinese Opera!
--> Shannon Bassett is an Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at USF SACD. There she teaches design studios and urban research workshops and has run urban design studios in China, collaborating with Tongji University School of Architecture and Urban Design in Shanghai and Tianjin University School of Architecture and Urban Design in Tianjin. Her design and writing has been published in Topos, the International Review of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, Urban Flux (Beijing), Canadian Architect and Landscape Architecture China (forthcoming). She has exhibited her design work and research both internationally and nationally, including most recently at the Hong Kong and Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture (2012). She was awarded a National_Endowment_for the Arts Grant for (re)stitch TAMPA, a research platform for designing the city with natural systems, with an ensuing book publication which she is currently working on. She is also working on the following book publication, “Emerging Urban Landscapes in Contemporary China - Transformative Infrastructural Works” Design Ecologies, Infrastructures and Systems as Urbanism which will comprise of an edited anthology of writings and images on this topic. She holds a Masters of Architecture in Urban Design from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and Architecture from Carleton University. Her urban design projects were published in New Orleans: Strategies for a City in a Soft Land (J.Busquets) and Two Squares (H.Sarkis). She is an active board member of IACP (International Association for China Planning).
Elisabeth Condon is an Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing in USF’s School of Art & Art History and has taught as Visiting Artist in Residence at Bennington College, New School, Ringling School of Art & Design and University of Tennessee Knoxville, among others. She lectures on her work at numerous universities across the United States and teaches all modes of painting and drawing including Chinese painting techniques. Condon’s work is included in the 2012 Beijing Biennial at the National Art Museum of China and is represented by Lesley Heller Workspace, New York and Dorsch Gallery, Miami. Condon is the recipient of a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant and Florida Individual Artist Fellowship in addition to numerous university research grants. A keen traveler, she has participated in artist residencies in Somerset, Marseille, Beijing, Songzhuang, Taichung, Cadaques, Sarasota Springs and the National Parks Residency at the Grand Canyon. Condon considers travel an immersive teaching method that merges life experience and cultural context. Traveling with students to China overlaps her interests in Chinese history, landscape and art.
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