Weiwen Huang
Weiwen Huang is the Director of Shenzhen Center for Public Art, the founder of Shenzhen Center for Design (SCD), co-founder of Future +, re-Tumu Urban/Rural Institute, and the main organizer of UrbanismArchitecture Bi-city Biennale (UABB) of Shenzhen. He is also the ex-Vice Chief Urban Planner of Urban Planning & Land Resource Commission of Shenzhen Municipal. He was Loeb Fellow ’09-’10 of Graduate School of Design, Harvard University.
Weiwen keeps exploration and reform in urban planning and design in Shenzhen. He continually seeks to establish new regulations for fair and open design competitions in his city. As a civil servant, he maintains an independent research program, and writes articles criticizing automobile-oriented and super-scale space design, attaching greater importance to public space, green transportation, and public participation in urban planning. In recent years, he is leading researching team working on the new development model for new town, such as MGC (multiple ground city) and SLID (super low impact development). He pushes UABB and SCD as platforms for exchange and communication about urbanism and built environment, especially about Urban Village, urban renewal and regeneration, land damage, which are the reality and challenge of his city, Shenzhen. His published works include: The UrbanismArchitecture Biennale and Shenzhen (2012), Shenzhen, The Rapid City-Making (2011), Urbanization in Contemporary China Observed: Dramatic Changes and Disruptions (2008), Utopia Lost City (2007), Sculpture City (2006), Redevelopment of Huaqiangbei Road (2005), and Research in Renovation on the Villages-in-the-City (2003). After the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, he initiated the first NGO by architects in China, named Re-Tumu, to provide design for the disaster-stricken or rural area.