The confirmed lineup of speakers includes:
- Kunlé Adeyemi – A Nigerian architect, urbanist and creative researcher based in Amsterdam, whose projects range from floating buildings for flood-prone regions, to educational facilities across Africa.
- Cho Minsuk – A South Korean architect and founder of Seoul-based studio Mass Studies whose native influences inform award-winning projects and pavilions that respond to, and integrate with, sites across the globe.
- Andra Matin – An Indonesian architect whose clean, contemporary aesthetic extends to landscapes that meet, intersect with, and extend over and through his buildings.
- Ani Safaryan – An architect at Beijing-based studio DnA _ Design and Architecture, which addresses contemporary living environments through research-driven design that considers both physical and social contexts.
- Liu Jiakun—The Chengdu-based architect draws inspiration from local context and vernacular craftsmanship, translating Eastern cultural essence into contemporary architectural language through a modern perspective, creating works that blend personal and collective memories.
- Petra Blaisse – A British-Dutch designer who founded Inside Outside, a studio working in a multitude of creative areas, including textile, landscape and exhibition design.
Béatrice Galilée, Executive Director of The World Around, states: “We believe that landscape practices represent a modern frontier in architecture, crucial for shifting discourse towards the intersection of architecture and urbanism. Our goal is to demonstrate how a collaborative, integrated, and informed approach to urbanism, landscape, and architecture can inform and shape our collective future.”
Béatrice Grenier, Director of Strategic Projects at the Fondation Cartier, states: “Landscape is a global discipline by methodology - it can only be thought through the prism of the totality of the planet. In this sense, thinking about landscape is a new way to think about globalization, a necessity of the museum today. Indeed we believe landscape has a new place in design, not just architectural, nor ecological, but one that situates itself at the very core of culture, shaping new ideas about what is nature and how humans and non-humans should live together.”
IN FOCUS: LANDSCAPES 聚焦：多重地景 is the most recent in a series of programs organized as part of an ongoing Global Cultural Partnership between The World Around and Fondation Cartier, bringing together the international architecture community to discuss critical topics. Among other initiatives, the In Focus: RADICAL REPAIR program took place at Triennale Milano in 2023 and a co-curated panel was held during the The World Around annual summit at the Guggenheim Museum New York earlier this year. The December 7 event will officially open at the Power Station of Art in Shanghai, an institution that has made "Architecture and the City" as a core area of research and exhibition. This event also marks a continuation of the long-standing collaboration between Power Station of Art and Fondation Cartier.
The event will live stream through Bilibili , click here to watch.
