AFTER VENICE_HOMO URBANUS_SHANGHAI

"Walking in unknown cities to collect impressions, to catch a vibration, to gather situations and things seen at the angle of a street, on a crossroad, from the top of a building. Depicting a city in its present, in the simplicity of its daily life. "

On 10th, December 2021, the branch offices of AIA Life Designers together celebrated and closed the Venice Biennale Architecture Exhibition by watching the  HOMO URBANUS_SHANGHAI Chapter, produced by Beka & Lemoine, 2 talented video artists.

▲ HOMO URBANUS SHANGHAI

▲ HOMO URBANUS SHANGHAI

AIA Life Designers devotes themselves to the balance between Architecture, Human being, and Nature and have been practicing and researching for decades. During the 2021 Venice Biennale, AIA Group presented the research results regarding the relation between urban life and human collective health in the exhibition themed ‘HOW ARE WE DOING’.

AIA invited the well-known video artists Beka & Lemoine to share and show their works during the exhibition and the after event.  In the past few years, Beka & Lemoine visited 10 international cities，showing the relation between city habitation and urban form through the perspective of the camera.  They produced 10 documentaries about with the theme of HOMO URBANUS.

▲ 'HOW ARE WE DOING'

Interaction between AIA and Beka & Lemoine fully responds to the biennale theme - the relation between urban life and human well-being. The movie practically presented the integration of humans, architecture, and the environment, while the research results of  AIA Life Designers provided a new vision and methodology for the healthy development of this relation.