Innovation to drive urban renovation
Daniel McQuade, director of Venture For All at Columbia Business School, gives a lecture to local startup companies at CREATOR Space on the sideline of City Innovation forum on Friday.
A renovation project of old communities in Yangpu District will be promoted elsewhere in downtown, involving innovative designs and cutting-edge technologies.
The project's operator CREATOR will cooperate with the College of Design and Innovation of Tongji University, which is behind the NICE2035 street, translating into Neighborhood of Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship toward 2035, in Siping community in Yangpu.
CREATOR, which takes charge of the ongoing redevelopment project on the historical Yuyuan Road in Changning, will involve the designing power and innovative ideas of the college for its urban renovation projects across the city.
The creativity, business models and technologies such as Internet, big data and AI on the Yangpu street will be applied to the renovation projects on other old residential communities, the CREATOR told a forum over the weekend.
The City Innovation forum was held in Changning on Friday to solicit ideas for the city's redevelopment campaign from over a dozen of experts both home and abroad on urban planning, construction, design, creativity, art, culture, technology and public welfare.
Keynote speakers included Daniel McQuade, director of Venture For All at Columbia Business School, Lou Yongqi, dean of the college of Tongji, and Esben Overgaard Hanse, the representative of the Nordic design alliance.
A number of newly opened model projects on Yuyuan Road were showcased to audiences on forum. A former dumpling restaurant, for instance, covering 9 square meters on the road, has been renovated into an open art gallery named 9m2.
The forum is part of the 2018 City Life Festival which began in October. The annual cultural and art festival aims to showcase the achievements of the ongoing urban revamping projects.
Esben Overgaard Hanse, the representative of the Nordic design alliance, gives a speech on the City Innovation forum at Changning District Workers' Palace on Friday.
Lou Yongqi, dean of the College of Design and Innovation of Tongji University, introduces the NICE2035 street on the City Innovation forum at Changning District Workers' Palace on Friday.
Over 100 audience members, including district officials and urban planners, attend the City Innovation forum in Changning District on Friday.
Speakers and organizers of City Innovation forum pose together at the end of the forum on Friday at Changning District Workers' Palace.
