Foreword

During the autumn term of 2019, an international group of students participated in the advanced course Sustainable Urban Dynamics and its complementary theory course Urban Dynamics - Theory and Methods, focusing on creating a sustainable vision for Dujiangyan. The aim of the design course was to challenge the existing development trends in China and propose an alternative sustainable future for the design site in the city of Dujiangyan in Sichuan Province, China.

Students focused on questions of urban development and sustainability in the context of China, globalization effects on the existing and new cities and the development of a holistic multi-scalar design process. These themes were explored throughout the whole semester in various seminars, guest lectures, and project tutorials with the goal that each student explores and presents a ‘context sensitive’ urban design proposal for the transformation of the assigned design site.

As part of the course, the class made for the first time a digital collaborative workshop in Lund and Chengdu with graduate students from Schools of Architecture in Lund, Design and City Planning from Beijing Jiaotong University, Southwest Jiaotong University, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Nanjing Tech University. During the workshop, the students received data, deepened their knowledge off their design site and explored the possibilities of its development through the visionary group proposals presented at the end of the workshop.

The student projects were presented on the 10th and 11th of December 2019, to the international jury at the School of Architecture in Lund. This course booklet presents the overview of the design process of the design studio and introduces 32 unique individual works as result of the semester.

For further information on the course and the International Master’s Program please visit our website at www.stadsbyggnad.lth.se.