The theme of this year’s Urban Design Festival is “creating better city life through design”, offering a platform for designers, scholars, planners and ordinary city dwellers to share and explore ideas that can bring a highly connected and vibrant city life to people.

Urban China magazine is the prime content creator of the festival, providing the event with knowledge- and media-wise support. The festival features a thematic forum and a design campaign, exploring issues and possibilities in the reality and from the future in realms such as street life, community and consumption. The design campaign, co-produced by Urban China and Assbook, invites architects and designers to renovate a small part of the Yuyuan Road community, which enjoys everlasting reputation for its cultural and architecture beauty and value.

Thematic Forum

The thematic forum of 2017 Urban Design Festival opened on October 26 at the Youth Palace of Changning district. Architects from home and abroad, designers, urban study scholars, business and consumption critics, as well as bookstore owners gathered at the forum to discuss a wide range of issues, with the key topic of “the new retail space in city renovation”.

Design Campaign at Yuyuan Road

The Urban Design Festival invited several designers to join the design campaign at Yuyuan Road. By creating micro renovation projects and art installations, the hundred-years-old block shines with modern sparkles.