Lantern Party in PengPu Town
Lantern making festivities at the newly opened Pengpu Town culuture center.
Author: George Kaye
Bamboo Handcraft @ YK Pao School
A semester-long introduction to material craft.
Jiashan Road Drawing Day
Sunday picnic & drawing party!
Bamboo Handcraft at Shanghai Library
A free-form family activity testing hands, tools, and materials.
Presenting the Plant Way of Life
完成了上海的各个公园之旅后所产生的一些见解
Outdoor Assemblies – Playshop series
Documenting street life in our neighborhood
Miracles in May
A publicly created record of transformations among plants at the start of May!
Treasure Hunt at Sun Commune
A weekend of investigations in forest and field.
Elemental Tales
Reflections on winter shadow puppetry
Springtime Plants & Patterns
Documenting encounters with the botanical world
Winter Shadows
A day of shadow puppet performances.
Marvelous Playmates
The practice of bamboo handcraft spans millennia in China, generating…
Winter Shadows Playshop Series
Wintertime is for storytelling!
A Winter Scene
Bamboo handcraft toys & play.
Shache Scenes
Drawings of Zhang Yi.
Bamboo Handcraft Playshop Series
Experimentation, skill-building, free-play, inquiry, research, invention, exchange.
A potent artist (that abides in us all)
“Seeing Cinnamomum” is workshop series and book compilation that is…
Bamboo Works / Maker Carnival
Make something unexpected at Shanghai Maker Carnival.
Moon Festival Gathering
Lanterns and mooncakes, harvest feast, poetry and song under the rising moon.
Lantern Craftwork
Create a lantern with bamboo and rice paper in preparation for the moon festival!
Book of Leaves: Cousins Abroad
Compare local leaf specimens with those from distant places.
Book of Leaves: Branching lines
Tribute to a tree at the East Asia Global Village conference.
Seeing Cinnamomum
Create a collective portrait of Cinnamomum camphora at ‘Fantastical Botanical’ Spring bazaar.
Seeing Cinnamomum
The Book of Leaves visits the NYU Sustainability Conference.
Leaf Research at Time Tree Library
What’s on a leaf? in a leaf? all around a leaf?
Book of Leaves: Camphor Study
The remarkable Cinnamomum camphora is one of Shanghai’s most populous tree species. Let’s get acquainted.
‘Book of Leaves’ on Lantern Festival
A riddle: All food comes from the sun, but at the table I’m number one.
Bunnies and Lovers
Valentines creations!
Ancient Wisdom
Thanks to the labors of generations of scientists, an extraordinary…
Book of Leaves: 300 Million Years
A tribute to tree species around us and our (very distant) common ancestry.
Xiwai campus tree survey
What are the oldest extant tree species in Shanghai?
Sun Spinning at DesignShanghai
Set an arc of spinning wheels in motion.
Wassaic Creek
Two days of sensing and interpreting by the creekside.
Flying Skies
A sky-blue kite traveling across yesterday’s blue sky: is the kite in transport, or the mind?
Pathways to Fortune
No two fortunes are alike, but they are all attained in steps. Shall we proceed?
Eco Guides
What simple question might a guide ask to ignite a journey of discovery?
Sun Spinning at EcoDesign Fair
Consider the miracle of color vision.
Artful Migrants
Plants, people, mobility.
Still / Wild
Many people, about two dozen toads, a cat, some ants,…
2015 Shanghai Ecodesign Fair
The Shanghai Ecodesign Fair returns this year with a convergence…
Color and (e)motion
Patterns, color, motion, mind.
Drawing All Day: Faces
Drop in and draw! Our theme is: Face.
Spinning machines + Girl Scouts
Experiment with wheels and related things.
Mood Analyzer!
Check the fluctuating spectrum on the color wheel and analyze yourself!
2015 Shanghai Ecodesign Fair – Call for artists!
The Shanghai Ecodesign Fair is welcoming proposals for arts installations…
Valentines Hotpot
Bring a gift of love.
“Nature Scriptorium” at ARTHarbin
Choose your favorite ecograph and inscribe it on the scriptorium walls at ARTHarbin.
Colors of Shanghai
Celebrate Shanghai’s colorful streetscapes at the Good Gift Fair.
Good Gift Fair
The GOOD Gift Fair brings together fine artists, outstanding civil society organizations and the public in Shanghai’s Hunan neighborhood.
Jiashan Road Assembly
A series of murals made on Jiashan Road
Halloween Masks
Imagine a face. Better yet, study a face near you.
Halloween Spirits
What lies behind Halloween? Its beginnings are intriguingly obscure, thought…
Ecographs: EarthWood
Explore the boundaries between wood and earth (i.e. soil).
Language Magic
When speech is written down a change occurs in our perception of language itself. How might we relate differently to the world around us if we had an oral people’s sense of language?
Beautiful Questions
Questions can be portals to new awareness. Here’s one: What…
Revisiting Waste
Waste can become a resource with a mere change of mind. How might interacting with materials in the context of art awaken us to their dual life, and nurture a healthy material culture?
Perturbing News
Perturbances may bring news of something dangerous or delightful coming through. What kinds of arts practices might stretch our faculties of perception, that we may better attend to subtle changes within us and around us?
绘制地图
Maps help us to connect the diversity of environments that support life, building our awareness of the territories within us and around us. What territories are as yet unexplored that may be illuminated by maps? What inventive mapping techniques may bring new light to the patterns that connect all life?
故事叙述
Our instinct for discerning good stories and for generating them is related to our sense of ourselves as part of an interconnected web of relations. What art practices might stimulate storytelling that articulates this web beyond the human community?
赠送礼物
Gift giving is how we perpetuate a virtuous cycle of exchange that is qualitatively different from the closed loop of market exchange. Artists, who are gifted from the start, are natural proponents of cultures of giving. What new formats might enrich such cultures, and what occasions are appropriate to them?
面部表情
Faces are strongly implicated in our capacity for empathy, which is strongly implicated in our ability to self-regulate our behaviors for collective welfare. What opportunities are there for extending our responsiveness to the human face into the more-than-human world?
8-Hour Draw
8 hours. Drawing implements. Imagination. A cake.
Ecosystem Perspectives: Houtan Park
A field study, a museum talk, a drawing workshop. Classical Chinese landscape painting and personal observations in the field.
Unconventionally Traditional
Four high school students teamed together under the appellation “95…
Air Tunes
Light, colorful chimes and a garden of pinwheels.
Air Hug & Snugger
A whimsically knitted air filtration system.
Beautiful Mushrooms
A sensory experience of soil, mushrooms, clay and porcelain, and a conversation about ecology.
Aspiration Traces
What traces do our aspirations leave, hanging in the air?
That Flies
Give a new name to “air”, put it on a kite, see if it flies!
2014 EcoDesign Fair
A gust of art experiences at the Shanghai EcoDesign Fair
Kitemaking in Xuhang Town
Making traditional paper and bamboo kites.
Drawing Air
A public calligraphy demonstration and “open air” drawing activity.
Ecographs: Air
Create a new symbol for “air” using Chinese brush and ink.
Ecographs Scriptorium: 2013 DesignShanghai
Build a scriptorium. Experiment with earth, water, fire, wood and metal. Paint the scriptorium walls.
Draw and Write into the Night
Writers, artists, translators, compilers and printers complete a literary pamphlet in 24 hours on a theme chosen out of a hat.
Something completely interesting
The uniform surface of a giant sheet of rice paper…
In the Room
A temporary installation consisting of a labyrinth of rice paper and some unexpected encounters.
Talk About Art
Have an art experience you’d like to share? Take the podium!
Ecographs: 5 Elements
“Watergraphs” is a fun art activity in which participants create a new symbol for water using Chinese brush and ink.
Talk About Art
Talk About Art is a convivial evening of sharing some unusual art experiences. Do you remember an art experience that makes your heart glow? Please share!
(English) M-graphs
What is M? What is a graph?
A More Beautiful Question
Questions can be portals to new awareness. Here’s one: What form of art might foster our reverence for questions as portals to new awareness?
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Ecographs at 2013 Shanghai Ecodesign Fair
Add your favorite ecograph to the the fair gates!
Urban DNA
A dynamic system of residual objects spiraling up to the sky.
许志锋
Xu Zhifeng aka Shaw explores the theoretical and social experience of architecture through performance pieces and art exhibitions that intervene in urban spaces. He studied architecture at the Fine Art College of Shanghai University between 2003 –2008 and currently lives and works in Shanghai. (website)
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Mini Green Challenge: Ecographs
Create a personal symbol for eco-values using Chinese brush and ink on paper.
识别机器人
Can you spot the real robot?
Hal Salon
An evening of literature, theater, live music, interactive art and discussion.
Eco Quest(ions)
What should designers of “eco products” be thinking about? What should we be asking them?
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