Lantern Party in PengPu Town
Lantern making festivities at the newly opened Pengpu Town culuture center.
Lantern making festivities at the newly opened Pengpu Town culuture center.
A semester-long introduction to material craft.
Sunday picnic & drawing party!
A free-form family activity testing hands, tools, and materials.
完成了上海的各个公园之旅后所产生的一些见解
Documenting street life in our neighborhood
A publicly created record of transformations among plants at the start of May!
A weekend of investigations in forest and field.
Reflections on winter shadow puppetry
Documenting encounters with the botanical world
A day of shadow puppet performances.
The practice of bamboo handcraft spans millennia in China, generating…
Wintertime is for storytelling!
Bamboo handcraft toys & play.
Drawings of Zhang Yi.
Experimentation, skill-building, free-play, inquiry, research, invention, exchange.
“Seeing Cinnamomum” is workshop series and book compilation that is…
Make something unexpected at Shanghai Maker Carnival.
Lanterns and mooncakes, harvest feast, poetry and song under the rising moon.
Create a lantern with bamboo and rice paper in preparation for the moon festival!
Compare local leaf specimens with those from distant places.
Tribute to a tree at the East Asia Global Village conference.
Create a collective portrait of Cinnamomum camphora at ‘Fantastical Botanical’ Spring bazaar.
The Book of Leaves visits the NYU Sustainability Conference.
What’s on a leaf? in a leaf? all around a leaf?
The remarkable Cinnamomum camphora is one of Shanghai’s most populous tree species. Let’s get acquainted.
A riddle: All food comes from the sun, but at the table I’m number one.
Valentines creations!
Thanks to the labors of generations of scientists, an extraordinary…
A tribute to tree species around us and our (very distant) common ancestry.
What are the oldest extant tree species in Shanghai?
Set an arc of spinning wheels in motion.
Two days of sensing and interpreting by the creekside.
A sky-blue kite traveling across yesterday’s blue sky: is the kite in transport, or the mind?
No two fortunes are alike, but they are all attained in steps. Shall we proceed?
What simple question might a guide ask to ignite a journey of discovery?
Consider the miracle of color vision.
Plants, people, mobility.
Many people, about two dozen toads, a cat, some ants,…
The Shanghai Ecodesign Fair returns this year with a convergence…
Patterns, color, motion, mind.
Drop in and draw! Our theme is: Face.
Experiment with wheels and related things.
Check the fluctuating spectrum on the color wheel and analyze yourself!
The Shanghai Ecodesign Fair is welcoming proposals for arts installations…
Bring a gift of love.
Choose your favorite ecograph and inscribe it on the scriptorium walls at ARTHarbin.
Celebrate Shanghai’s colorful streetscapes at the Good Gift Fair.
The GOOD Gift Fair brings together fine artists, outstanding civil society organizations and the public in Shanghai’s Hunan neighborhood.
A series of murals made on Jiashan Road
Imagine a face. Better yet, study a face near you.
What lies behind Halloween? Its beginnings are intriguingly obscure, thought…
Explore the boundaries between wood and earth (i.e. soil).
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?
Questions can be portals to new awareness. Here’s one: What…
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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 hours. Drawing implements. Imagination. A cake.
A field study, a museum talk, a drawing workshop. Classical Chinese landscape painting and personal observations in the field.
Four high school students teamed together under the appellation “95…
Light, colorful chimes and a garden of pinwheels.
A whimsically knitted air filtration system.
A sensory experience of soil, mushrooms, clay and porcelain, and a conversation about ecology.
What traces do our aspirations leave, hanging in the air?
Give a new name to “air”, put it on a kite, see if it flies!
A gust of art experiences at the Shanghai EcoDesign Fair
Making traditional paper and bamboo kites.
A public calligraphy demonstration and “open air” drawing activity.
Create a new symbol for “air” using Chinese brush and ink.
Build a scriptorium. Experiment with earth, water, fire, wood and metal. Paint the scriptorium walls.
Writers, artists, translators, compilers and printers complete a literary pamphlet in 24 hours on a theme chosen out of a hat.
The uniform surface of a giant sheet of rice paper…
A temporary installation consisting of a labyrinth of rice paper and some unexpected encounters.
Have an art experience you’d like to share? Take the podium!
“Watergraphs” is a fun art activity in which participants create a new symbol for water using Chinese brush and ink.
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!
What is M? What is a graph?
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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Add your favorite ecograph to the the fair gates!
A dynamic system of residual objects spiraling up to the sky.
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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Create a personal symbol for eco-values using Chinese brush and ink on paper.
Can you spot the real robot?
An evening of literature, theater, live music, interactive art and discussion.
What should designers of “eco products” be thinking about? What should we be asking them?