Dashilar: Housing In-between is a collaborative forum and exhibition event organized by Studio X and Dashilar Platform for Beijing International Design Week 2015. Curated by Jeffrey Johnson (Studio X Beijing), Yijing Xu and Neill Mclean Gaddes (SANS, Dashilar Platform) with support from Columbia University GSAPP, Dashilar Platform and Beijing International Design Week.
‘Housing’ is a basic human necessity and has always been a critical subject of discussion around the world. With growing awareness of the gross inequalities created by neoliberal economies, significant attention has been placed recently on the housing conditions of those less privileged and marginalized.
From feudalism to socialism to neoliberal market economy, over the past century the traditional Hutong neighbourhoods of Beijing had gone through radical social, cultural and spatial transformations induced by the shifting of national political and economic paradigms. Under Deng Xiaoping’s economic reform, a large influx of rural-to-urban migrant workers have arrived in cities throughout China, posing new challenges in accommodating them.
