[News] Closing Ceremony of the Exhibition “Tracé Bleu”

Closing Ceremony of the exhibition “Tracé Bleu” at Tongji University in Shanghai.

After being open to the public for a month, Architecturestudio officially concluded the exhibition “Tracé Bleu” at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP) of Tongji University in Shanghai on October 11.

René-Henri Arnaud, partner architect at Architecturestudio, and Vincent Hannotin, director of AS Shanghai, reflected on the past 20 years of the agency’s architectural practice in China.

The presentation was followed by a round table discussion titled “Living the World Differently”, moderated by Marie-Caroline Piot and Romain Boursier. Participants included:

– ZENG Qun, Vice President of Tongji University Architectural Design & Research Institute (Group) Co., Ltd., and Chief Architect of the Group

– ZHANG Bing, founding architect of Atelier Z+

– CHENG Xinhao, artist

– Martin Colomer-Diez, Director of Cultural Engineering at CENTQUATRE-PARIS

– TAN Zheng and YANG Chen, professors at CAUP, Tongji University

In China, a paradigm shift is underway: after an era of overconstruction, the urgency now lies in transforming and enhancing spaces, including recently built yet already neglected ones. Each speaker emphasized the importance of renewing diagnostic approaches, whether in terms of biodiversity, intangible or cultural heritage, while rethinking public spaces as new commons—closer to plural imaginations and the diverse needs of inhabitants.

This reconsideration and transformation of existing spaces, even the most mundane, has become a priority in addressing the new challenges of inhabited environments.

This underscores the pressing need to inhabit the world differently.