Organizers

Fondazione EMGdotART

Fondazione EMGdotART

Founded in Venice, Italy, Fondazione EMGdotART is based on the Venice Biennale which is the first art and cultural foundation set up by Chinese enterprise in Venice, Italy.

The Chairman of the foundation is Marino Folin, Former Rector of the Università IUAV di Venezia from 1991 to 2006. It has a history of over a hundred years, connecting the most advanced and innovative resources in culture, art, science, and technology from around the globe. It focuses on common issues in global development, and explores cases and solutions concerning cultural diversity and leading technologies.

Since its establishment, the foundation has kept its original mission in mind, to actively be engaged in the global dissemination and promotion of culture, art, and design, and it has been committed to advancing China-foreign exchange. It has held over 200 exhibitions, forums, academic, cultural, and educational activities covering topics of art, design, city, science and technology, society and aesthetic education, with thousands of artists and their works, scholars, and experts from dozens of countries involved. In architecture and urban construction particularly, the foundation has been the focus, and it has gained long-term attention through the platform of Venice Biennale, and has formed deep connections.

Fondation EMGdotART has curated over 200 cultural and art exhibitions all over the world, including:
"Culture Union Exhibition" at 55th Venice Art Biennale;
"Adaptation –Architecture and Change in China" exhibition at 14th Venice Architecture Biennale;
"Sharing and Regeneration" exhibition at 15th Venice Architecture Biennale and Milan Expo official project.

Digital Architecture Design Association

Digital Architecture Design Association

The Mission of DADA is to unite architecture, scholars, relevant enterprises, academic communities, organize academic seminars of digital architecture design both domestically and internationally, promote the research and practice of digital architecture, and popularize the knowledge and technology of digital architecture. Besides, DADA is aiming to actively guide the communication and connection of different fields within the architecture industry, i.e. design, manufacturing, construction, and management, contributing to the integration and upgrading of the architecture industry, as well as the building of a sustainable industrial chain.

Institute of Advanced Architecture Catalonia, Spain

Institute of Advanced Architecture Catalonia, Spain

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) is an educational and research centre dedicated to the development of architecture capable of meeting the worldwide challenges in the construction of habitability in the early 21st century. IAAC has the mission of envisioning the future habitat of our society, and building it in the present.

Urban Regeneration 2050 (UR 2050)

Urban Regeneration 2050 (UR 2050)

UR 2050 has been committed to the career of urban renewal in China for a long time. It has held a number of forums and activities on urban renewal in major cities across the country, and has built up an international platform comprised of government agencies, think tanks, academic institutions, laboratories, universities, enterprises, and industrial parks, to make joint efforts to promote urban renewal in China and pool innovative energy into cities.