072 都市人文学

《都市人文学——超级大都市的知识建构》

Urban Humanities: Potential of the Humanities and the Megacity   (2015.10)

2013年初，加州大学洛杉矶分校发起了都市人文学计划（UHI），旨在创立一个国际性的教学科研中心，将设计与人文学的研究方法结合起来，使来自多个专业的学生们有一个新的平台来研究都市与建筑。UHI的研究方法突破固有的局限，走出跨学科的道路，学生们在教授们的指导下，每年研究一个太平洋沿岸城市，在收集和阅读资料的基础上，在目标城市调研十天，最终拿出作品。2014~2015年度的UHI研究了上海，关注这座特大城市的争议空间和身份认同。学生们在四个地点展开调研：法租界、1933老场坊、M50创意园区、陆家嘴。他们的研究成果包括图解、文章和视频，这些作品还以“Now Shanghai/闹海”展览的形式，参加了2015上海城市空间艺术季。

In early 2013, multiple faculties at UCLA came together to establish the Urban Humanities Initiative. The primary aim was to develop a hub for collaborative urban research that bridges the fields of architecture and humanities, with the vision of gaining international recognition. The UHI 2014-15 project, which centred on the city of Shanghai, was focused on the concept of contested spaces of identity. The project addressed numerous issues, such as spatial and morphological restructuring of the city, forms and processes of identification, uses of the past and visions of the future, aesthetics, authenticity, and the social imaginary. The study also explored how various modes of representation, such as maps, images, texts, and narratives, shape urban identities and our understanding of them. After a year-long course of study on the history, film, literature, architecture, and planning of Shanghai, mixed-discipline teams travelled to the city to explore and film one of four selected sites. The cinematic representations of Shanghai are complemented by a series of densely rendered spatial diagrams and maps, providing further dimensionality to the urban humanists' understanding of the city's past, present, and future.