俞孔坚应邀墨尔本大学做中国当代景观与城市设计实践的演讲
北京大学景观设计学研究院院长俞孔坚教授应邀墨尔本大学建筑、营造与规划学院的邀请，将于5月30日在墨尔本大学做公开演讲。俞孔坚教授将向墨尔本大学的师生介绍中国当代景观与城市设计的实践。
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演讲题目：国际性与民族身份：中国当代景观与城市设计实践
Internationality and Identity: Towards Modern Chinese Landscape Architecture and Urban Design
演讲英文摘要：
Lecture Abstract
Urbanization, globalization and the spread of materialism have positioned landscape architecture to critically address three major challenges in the coming decades. With this big picture in mind, the issue of internationality and identity in Chinese contemporary landscape architecture and urban design were brought about.
The first challenge is the survival of humanity on the earth. More than ever, large parts of population are exposed to disastrous natural forces, pollution and shortage of resources, as were demonstrated by the catastrophes of the Tsunami in South East Asia, Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and numerous floods each year all over the world. Two thirds of the 662 Chinese cities are in shortage of water, all rivers in the urban and suburban areas are polluted.Taking land as a medium, landscape architecture is given the great opportunities within this crucial period of time to find ways of rebuilding a harmonious relationship between the land and people.
The second is about cultural identity. The strength of LA in dealing with this issue lies in its intrinsic association with the natural systems and in its roots of agricultural tradition. Urbanization and globalization processes are so fast and overwhelming, therefore a “negative approach” should be taken against the conventional development planning, i.e. landscape architects and planners should lead the way to identify and design an ecological infrastructure that is critical in safeguarding the ecological processes and cultural heritages, before the stage of land development planning.
The third is the protection and rebuild of our spiritual homeland. The trend of materialism has been taking over the world and also China. The land which used to be inhabited by various spirits that made the landscape meaningful and poetic is becoming commercialized. Gradually, we lose our spiritual connections to our land towards superficial, exchangeable international images of the world beyond the earthly one, which landscape architecture is positioned to protect and rebuild.
Four award winning contemporary designs will be presented in detail to illustrate the author’s thinking about internationality and identity, including the Zhongshan Shipyard Park, the Rice Campus of Shenyang Architecture University, the Floating Gardens of Yongning River Park, and the Negative Approach to Urban Development in Taizhou City.
