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In recent years, the number of traditional villages in China has decreased sharply, and the existing villages are facing population hollowing out and economic development failure. These problems urgently need to be addressed. Under the guidance of the national strategy of "rural revitalization + cultural inheritance", since 2018, the School of Design of Shanghai Jiao Tong University has launched a series of practices of "saving traditional villages", constantly exploring new development models of traditional villages that can be promoted and adapted to local conditions, empowering their protection and development.

Host

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Organizer

International Research Center for Architectural Cultural Heritage Conservation, School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Advisory

China Foundation for Cultural Heritage Conservation

Shanxi Cultural Relics Bureau, China

The Main Content of the Workshop

1. Forms of participation

The event will be carried out in the form of a combination of online and offline, inviting students from universities in the mainland, Hong Kong and Macao who are in the third year or above grades of national key disciplines such as architecture, urban and rural planning, design, sociology, anthropology, and rural economic management. It is estimated that there will be 15 candidates from mainland (including international students at mainland universities) and 10 candidates from Hong Kong and Macau.

This event will be divided into 4 working groups and different themes respectively, these are; live broadcast and publicity group, ancient building repair group, theme cultural and creative planning group, and village digital development planning group. This event will take the form of cooperation between offline teams and online teams:

Offline – The groups will conduct 7-day research in Lianghu Village, and then participate in 5-day online planning work;

Online – The groups will conduct a 13-day online research and planning process.

2. Main work content

Within the framework of the China Foundation For Cultural Heritage Conservation, the members participate in the public fund-raising campaign for the restoration of the Lianghu Village "Gengdudi" to raise funds to complete the restoration of the ancient building. By dividing the team members into four groups and completing the corresponding group tasks, the final result of the construction practice is formed.

3. Group tasks

① Live broadcasting and publicity group

② Ancient building repair team

③ Cultural and creative planning group

④ Village digital development planning

Tutors and Judges

University organizing tutors

Yongkang CAO, Professor

Department of Architecture, School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Director, International Research Center for Architectural Cultural Heritage Protection, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Yinwu HUANG, Associate professor

Department of Architecture, School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Qian DU, Assistant researcher

Department of Architecture, School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Other universities' tutors

Maoyan XU, Professor

Department of Architecture, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University

Yong HE, Professor

Department of Architecture, School of Architecture and Engineering, Zhejiang University

Yimin REN

Former president of the Shanxi Provincial Institute of Ancient Architecture and Painted Mural Protection

Guannan PANG

Director of Landscape Design Studio, Taiyuan University of Technology

Head of environmental design

Jianyi ZHENG, Assistant professor

Director of the Architecture Program, Faculty of Humanities and Arts, Macau University of Science and Technology

Xiao LIU, Assistant professor

Faculty of Humanities and Arts, Macau University of Science and Technology

IP Kin Hong, Assistant professor

Faculty of Humanities and Arts, Macau University of Science and Technology

How to Apply

The 2022 "Saving Traditional Villages" Summer Practice Group of Shanghai Jiao Tong University sincerely invites like-minded students from various majors to participate in the practice of rural revitalization. We are here to learn, make progress together, and explore new ways of rural revitalization.

Whether you are good at design, operation, planning, live broadcast, or self-media operation, or you like to open your mind and have innovative ideas or have a certain understanding of the Metaverse and NFT, we welcome you to join our team. Show your sparkle! We have four theme groups for you to choose from: live broadcast publicity team, ancient building repair team, theme cultural and creative planning team, and village digital development planning team. Here, you have a stage to display your talents, you can meet like-minded friends, and you can feel the passionate collision of ideas!

Release: July 2022

Event dates:  August 1 to August 13, 2022

Registration deadline: July 17, 2022

Registration method: Scan the QR code above or click "Read More" at the end of this page to register. The candidates will be selected and contacted by Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Special note: In order to ensure the smooth development of the activity and the high-quality output of the results, it is hoped that every participating student can ensure that he or she will be able to participate in the practice work from August 1 to August 13, otherwise he will not be included in the list of members of the practice group and will not be issued with relevant activity certificates.

Related Information

Consultation on practical related matters:

Ms Lan LUO

Department of Architecture, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Mail: luolan2016@sjtu.edu.cn

Project cooperation and media consultation:

Mr Yiyun HU

International Research Center for Architectural Heritage Conservation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Phone: 135-6497-1352

Mail: ahc@sjtu.edu.cn

WeChat official account: SJTU-IRCAHC

Contact channels of Hong Kong and Macau universities:

Mr Jiaxing WU

Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Office, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Phone: 0086-21-34206752

Mail: ohmt@sjtu.edu.cn

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