Shanghai Art & Amp design fair has been held every two years since its inception in 2000. As a sub-section of the "Aesthetic City" ,"Tracing the City" 2013 was presented in Gallery 2E of the Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai. As the curatorial team of the exhibition, LYCS Architecture was responsible for all aspects of the exhibition design, from exhibition planning, exhibition setting, artist invitation, space design, graphic design, etc.
The theme is "Tracing the City." We combined the exhibition's flow and diverse exhibits. We used existing columns to support new walls. The walls had random shifts in angle and thickness. This changed visitors' perception of the original space. Each exhibit had a unique position and view. Curator Mr. Hangjian called it the most spatially layered hall in the Art and Design Exhibition.
Mobility generates cities: people, information, transportation, resources and capital all complete their tidal cycle throughout the city through their own movement. Through digital methods and artistic expressions, the exhibition will analyze the city and the problems caused by mobility in the city from macro or micro individual aspects, study the invisible trajectory of mobility and thus redraw the form and space of the city, and build an understanding of the mobile city from different latitudes. At the same time, the exhibition will also showcase designs that are trying to solve and improve the problem of urban mobility, which re-examine the ways, concepts, and even the subjects of mobility, showing the future of the city and the role of design in the future movement of the city.
