What is the polemic of my design? (argument against some doctrine)
- Have a prediction for what is going to happen in the future and a spatial response to it, whether that is for, or against the doctrine.
- Urban Villages (but not Xiaozhou’s situation)
- Entering into a continuous replacement and densification of space
- To a certain threshold where it will then be demolished and rebuilt entirely
- What do you think will happen to Xiaozhou Village?
- Gentrification/cleansing
- Urban migrants will be displaced by middle class population, either through tourism or commercial developments (residential retreats)
- Heritage is used as a form of control/power (by government & villagers)
- Heritage as a form of cleansing (necessarily the use of heritage means that only certain strands of collectiveness is legitimized)
- Heritage as a form of legitimizable identity – the process of legitimization of identity through AHD
- Is this unique to the Chinese situation?
- Heritage used a method for gentrification, I’m sure there are examples
- What doctrine am I arguing against?
- From heritage as a form of control (resistance to change) to heritage as a form of intervention (recognises change)
- Recognising that heritage can act as a form of resistance to control
- What is the spatial proposal?
- Build walls to denote a protected oasis for urban migrants
- How do you use heritage as a form of intervention
- Use heritage to intervene – HOW? WHAT ASPECTS of heritage? WHAT CHARACTERISTICS of heritage is unique and can be used to intervene?
- Self-referential (discourse)
- What are the spatial tools of heritage?
- Materiality
- Boundary
- Surveying
