The 2017 International Doctoral School of Future City and Architecture

ACADEMIC COMMITTEE

Directors:Prof. WU Zhiqiang, Prof. Inaki Abalos, Prof. Stefano Boeri

Members:Prof. Achim Menges, Prof. Arindam Dutta, Prof. Brent D Ryan, Prof. CAI Yongjie, Prof. CHEN Yi, Prof. Claudio Feijoo, Prof. Desmond Neil Leach，Prof. DONG Nannan, Prof. Gennaro Postiglione, Prof. HAN Feng, Prof. Heng Chye Kiang, Prof.HU Bin, Prof. LI Zhenyu, Prof. LI Xiangning, Prof. LI Bin, Prof. LI Linxue,Prof. Matias del Campos, Prof. Stefan Al, Prof. Mike XIE, Prof. Philip Oldfield, Prof. Philip John Harrison, Prof. Sergio Ramos, Prof. WU Jiang, Prof. Yung Ho Chang, Prof. YANG Guiqing, Prof. YU Yifan, Prof. YUAN Feng, Prof. ZHUO Jian

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Director: Prof. LI Zhenyu

Deputy Directors:Prof. LI Xiangning, Prof. SUN Tongyu, Prof. CAI Yongjie, Prof. YANG Guiqing, Prof. HAN Feng

CONTACT

International Cooperation Office

Tel: +86 21 6598 3592

Email: caup@tongji.edu.cn

Academic Development Institute

Tel: +86 21 6598 2107

Email: adi-caup@tongji.edu.cn

Graduate Manage Office

Tel: +86 21 6598 4276

Email: caup65984276@tongji.edu.cn

Address: College of Architecture and UrbanPlanning, Tongji University, 1239# Siping Road, Shanghai, China, 200092

SUMMARY

The International Doctoral School of Future City and Architecture organized by CAUP (College of Architecture and Urban Planning) of Tongji University is going to be held on October 11, 2017. It is composed of two parts, one workshop focusingon research proposal and research method training and five academic forums.

1) Workshop on research proposal and research method training

This workshop will offer the PhD. students intensified training on how to develop thesis proposal, using proper research method and making clear and feasible research plan. During the workshop, divided into groups, led by tutors, the participants will visit and investigate three types of specific Shanghai urban spaces (Historical Space, Waterfront Space and Suburban Space) one by one in three days, and will be required to select one type of urban space as presumed research object. Each group of students will collaborate to search for the reasonable research questions, applying interdisciplinary perspective and methods, preparing the literature review, and proposing a systematic research plan as well as drawing a possible research conclusion.

The participants will have two opportunities to present their research.

The first is amid-term review which is placed right after the three-day city tours, eachgroup shall confirm their research object, proposing the possible research directions, and developing the proposal by the aids of tutors, thus initially framing the research question and structure. The second is a final presentationwhich is at the end of the whole program, the participants will be required to present the whole package of research proposal by PPT within limited time to the Jury. Those best presentations will get certain rewards.

2) Forum and lectures

Between the mid-term presentation and final presentation, the International Doctoral School organizes five forums for the participants, which include “Architectural Global Political Compass”, “Sustainable Vertical Urbanism”, “Frontier of Architecture”, “Frontier of Urban Planning”, “Frontier of Landscape Architecture”.

The first forum is a continuity of 2017 Shanghai Urban Space Art Season, to provide audience comprehensive narrative as well as critical perspectives on the relationship between contemporary architecture and global political agenda bymeans of lecture and dialogue. The second forum is co-organized by CAUP of Tongji University and CTBUH, to inquire and envision the future development ofhigh-density city. The rest three are chaired by three departments of CAUP, to present the frontier researches or tendencies in each discipline. In total, the program is supposed to contain more than twenty lectures. It would be an academic feast awaiting the international PhD candidates to enjoy.