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12:00-12:20 Ticket pick-up at the reception desk (for UCCA members who RSVPed)

12:20-12:50 Exclusive UCCA members-only guided tour

12:30-13:00 Ticket distribution at the reception desk (for UCCA members who didn’t RSVP and non-members)

13:00-15:00 Conversation

*Please arrive promptly.

Krzysztof Wodiczko (Artist, Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design)

Krzysztof Wodiczko is Professor in Residence of Art, Design, and the Public Domain at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is renowned for his large-scale slide and video projections on architectural facades and monuments. He has realized more than 80 such public projections around the world. Since the late 1980s, his projections have involved the active participation of marginalized and estranged city residents. Simultaneously, he has been designing and implementing a series of nomadic instruments and vehicles with homeless, immigrant, and war veteran operators for their survival and communication.

Orkan Telhan (Artist, Associate Professor at University of Pennsylvania, School of Design)

Orkan Telhan is an interdisciplinary artist, designer and researcher whose investigations focus on the design of interrogative objects, interfaces, and media, engaging with critical issues in social, cultural, and environmental responsibility. Telhan is Associate Professor of Fine Arts – Emerging Design Practices at University of Pennsylvania, School of Design. He was part of the Sociable Media Group at the MIT Media Laboratory and the Mobile Experience Lab at the MIT Design Laboratory. He studied Media Arts at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and went to pursue theories of media and representation, visual studies and graphic design at Bilkent University, Ankara. Telhan is working towards his PhD in Design and Computation at MIT’s Department of Architecture. Telhan’s individual and collaborative work has been exhibited in a number of venues including the Istanbul Design Biennial, Ars Electronica, ISEA, LABoral, Archilab, Architectural Association, Architectural League/ NYC, and the MIT Museum.

James Shen (Co-founder of People’s Architecture)

James Shen is a product designer and architect. He is a founding partner of Beijing-based People’s Architecture Office and People’s Industrial Design Office, Visiting Professor at MIT, and a Harvard Loeb Fellow. People’s Architecture Office is a certified B Corporation, focusing on social impact through design. Award winning projects such as the Courtyard House Plugin, the People’s Canopy, and the Tricycle House speak to an interest in informal urbanism and a unique multidisciplinary approach to engaging in urban regeneration. James’s works have been shown at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Rotterdam International Architecture Biennale, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and have been exhibited in cities including New York, London, Milan, Seoul, and Hong Kong.

Alessandro Rolandi (Artist)

Alessandro Rolandi’s theoretical interest spans chemistry, experimental theatre and film-making, and the history of art. Alessandro has been living and working in Beijing since 2003 as a multimedia and performance artist, director, curator, researcher, writer, and lecturer. His work focuses on social intervention and relational dynamics to expand the notion of art practice beyond existing structures, spaces, and hierarchies, and to engage directly with reality in multiple ways. He is the founder and director of the Social Sensibility Research & Development Department at Bernard Controls in Beijing and Paris, and one of the founding partners of the Social Sensibility Research Institute (SoSense). His work has been shown in the Venice Biennale; WRO Wroclaw Biennale; Museo Pecci, Milano; FUSO VideoArt Lisbon; UCCA, Beijing; MAXXI Roma; Royal College of Art, London; and other venues in New York, Berlin, Vienna, Shenzhen, Beijing, Shanghai, Australia, Shanghai, Toronto, Montreal, and Frankfurt.

Brendan Warford (Founder of BH15)

Born and raised in Boston, Brendan Warford is the founder of inter-disciplinary platform BHI5, which focuses on creativity development through alternative learning. Coming from an electronic engineering and architecture background, Warford's practices range from mobile urban aquaponics + veggie mart, public space interventions, graffiti, and art objects in public spaces.

DESIGN H(ij)ACK

DESIGN H(ij)ACK is a summer program situated in Beijing, introducing students to the concept of “Design H(ij)ack.” While “hack” has been widely used to describe the destructive behavior of anarchist activism, “hijack” is intended to interrupt the original continuity of an ongoing process, and divert it towards its (hijacker’s) own desired course or purpose. The program proposes to merge these two phenomena. Parallel to the design program, “DESIGN H(ij)ACK” is hosting a series of thematic lectures on art and architecture delivered by international masters and local art and design practitioners, while simultaneously also offering trips to major culture sites and production factories.