Bajia House 2: Social Spaces

Zandie Brockett

• Other Authors Wang Lijie (Editor), Huang Jingyuan (Editor), Alessandro Rolandi (Editor), Céline Lamée (Designer), ATLAS (Contributor), Chen Xinghui (Contributor), Chen Yun (Contributor), Dr. Xu Jing (Contributor), Elaine W. Ho (Contributor), Feng Junhua (Contributor), Xiang Jing (Contributor), Kong Fanglong (Contributor), Kyle Skor (Contributor), Liu Chengrui (Contributor), Luka Yang (Contributor), Ni Kun (Contributor), Liu Jiajun (Contributor), Song Yi (Contributor), Wen Hui (Contributor), Wendy Wang (Contributor), Wu Shuqing (Contributor), Xu Tan (Contributor), Zhao Tao (Contributor)
• Title

  Bajia House 2: Social Spaces

• Date 2018
• ISBN 9780692107959
• Publisher Beijing, China: Bactagon
• Description .5in; 239 pgs; b/w and color
• Language English, Chinese
• Collections Permanent Collection
• Summary

  Beijing’s social spaces — sites for gathering, dancing, playing, socializing, discussing, exchanging, dreaming, loving, hypothesizing both alone and with others — are slowly being eradicated. In their place State-led visions of a refined, cosmopolitan future are constructed.

  This second issue of 八家 Bajia considers the disappearance of Social Spaces throughout urban China, and particularly the socially engaged artist, architects and entrepreneurs that are challenging this socio-urban erasure. Within this printed space, twenty-four contributors survey, highlight, document and abstract various approaches to (re)building, creating, subverting, and maintaining the social and various interpersonal relationships that comprise it. Through eighteen months of research and collaboration, this issue of 八家 Bajia presents conversations guided by the political, economic, and social complexities inherent to the region, and not those of a Western legacy. (Bactagon Projects)

• Tags Urban design, Urban studies, Space, Architecture, Migration, Journal