Counterpart Cities: FUTUREPORT

Exhibition: Counterpart Cities: FUTUREPORT

Hong Kong-Shenzhen Bi City Biennale 2011

Curator: Solomon, J., Tang, D.

Venues/Dates: OCT Loft, Shenzhen (9 December, 2011 – 4 February, 2012)

Central Market Oasis Gallery, Hong Kong, February-March 2012

Featuring: Featuring the FUTURE PORT Project, conduced as a research project within a research team at HKU

(Verebes, T. Principal Investigator PI).

Principal Investigator: Tom Verebes

Co-Investigators: Kristof Crolla, GAO Yan, Christian Lange; Praneet Verma (RA)

Participants: Teams led by Verebes, T., Al, S., Mak, V.

Research Grants:

Hong Kong Environmental Conservation Fund (PI: Jonathan Solomon; CI: Dorothy Tang)

Shenzhen Biennale Committee (PI: Jonathan Solomon; CI: Dorothy Tang)

Knowledge Exchange Grant (HKU), PI: Jonathan Solomon

Publications: • Verebes, T. (2013). Masterplanning the Adaptive City: Computational Urbanism in the Twenty-first

Century. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis. (Forthcoming)

• Tang, D., Solomon, J (2013). From Water to Land: Urban Ecologies of the Pearl River Delta,

Hong Kong University Press. (Forthcoming)

• Tang, D., Solomon, J (2012). “Counterpart Cities: Multi-disciplinary Research on Environmental Issues of

Hong Kong and Shenzhen.” Green (Domus China), No. 1, Summer 2012, 66-75. (English & Chinese)

Contents: •Feature on Counterpart Cities projects, including “Futureport” project (HKU)

research team; Tom Verebes, Principle Investigator)

•Transcription of Conference Panel Discussion

• Tang, D., Solomon, J., Li Hua (2013).. “Multifaceted, Counterparts, Conversations.” Green (Domus China),

No. 1, Summer 2012, 76-83. (English & Chinese)

Printed Press: • 2012 Lin, Jun Chiang. “「雙城展」規劃環保珠三角 (‘Counterpart Cities Exhibition’ plans a sustainable Pearl

River Delta)”, Hong Kong Commercial Daily, February 19 2012, A02. (Chinese)

• 2012 Apple Daily. “倡淨水設施置大廈發展水網絡 (Freshwater Network created through the

integration of water treatment infrastructure in Skyscrapers)” Apple Daily, February 19 2012, A12.

(Chinese)

• 2012 Zhuo, Yong. “對應雙城：面對氣候變遷的深港合作行動(Counterpart Cities: Collaborative Action of

Hong Kong and Shenzhen in the face of Climate Change)” Housing and Real Estate (住宅與房地產) No.

315, January 2012, 21-22 (Chinese)

• 2011 Yau, Elise. “A Lesson from Shenzhen,深港城市未來” Ming Bao Weekly, Issue 2251, December 31,

2011, 24-29 (Chinese)

• 2011 Chow, Vivienne. “Uprooting Shenzhen,” South China Morning Post. December 19, 2011, A4 (English)

Digital Media: • 2012 Echeverri, Natalia. “Bi-City Biennale on Urban Transformation in China” in Polis. 15 February 2012.

• 2011 Amer, Mohammed. “Counterpart cities: climate change response by Hong Kong and Shenzhen” in

• 2011 Leigha, DB. “Counterpart cities: climate change response by Hong Kong and Shenzhen” in Design