we are presenting a description of the week accompanied
with
photos and works


  Title:

"The Florence Boxes Garden"

 

  Project Leader:

Prof. Pengfei Cui
Central Academy of Fine Arts, China
No.8 Hua Jia Di Nan Jie
Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
Tel. ++8610 6473 8395
Fax ++ 8610 6477 1094
Email:
rkitiche@hotmail.com




  Brief description of the initiative:

The final aim of the workshop
This year the students' workshop is named "The Florence Boxes Garden", and it aimed to the principles of international integration between east and west among youth  form different culture.
In this workshop every student was working with a cardboard boxes to express his (her) impress of city Florence. The box project  is some a space design under a flexible function, each team was placed the 8-block-box in a line on the site at the finishing time, and next the boxes line will place the other teams' 8-block-box.
When all the boxes were arranged, The Florence Boxes Garden is opening.
In crossing the "Florence Boxes Garden" through from different travel route one have got different feel, rhythm and space order. When students and all the friends on site mix and share all their  "box-travel" experience, the workshop's mission "During in Florence" is done.
Each team was asked to have a unique theme to finish their section of the project, so the students were working according to the clue of their own team.
Every university was asked to pre-finished at least one "box", this (these) box(es) were acting as the "pre-Imaging of Florence" ones, and were also programmed (played) with the later Florence boxes.
AFTER the workshop when the students back to home, each national group of university is asked to finish a final version of the project "The Florence Boxes Garden", this project is the final part of the "Impress of City Florence Experience", according to the international experience and knowledge received during their stay in Florence.

The kind or works that are requested the students to prepare during their stay in Florence
Every university was asked to pre-finished at least one "box", this (these) box(es) was acting as the "pre-Imaging of Florence" ones, and was  also programmed (played) with the later Florence boxes.



  The partecipants:
 

  • CAFA. (Central Academy of Fine Arts)
    Beijing, CHINA
    Lu Pinjing, Vice dean of School of Design, Head Department of Architecture
     

  • Renmin University of China
    Beijing, CHINA
    Mr. Tong yan, Vice President of Design Dept. Xu Beihong's Art School
     

  • Ming Chuan University
    Taipei, CHINA
    Jerven Hsu, Head Department of Architecture
     

  • RISD. Rhode Island School of Design
    Rhode Island, USA
    Peter Tagiuri, Head Department of Architecture
     

  • Tsinhua University
    Beijing, CHINA
    Zhou Rong

 

This masterclass has been realised thanks to the co-operation of Viva hotels - Hotels in Florence