The “Echo” of a Thousand Year Old Street: Songyang, Inheritance of Intangible Cultural Heritage and the Hustle and Bustle Renewal
United States, 3rd Sep 2023 – Located in the southwest of Zhejiang Province, Songyang County is known as the “county sample of classical China”. In 2022, Songyang Mingqing Ancient Street was selected as the “National Intangible Cultural Heritage and Tourism Integration Development Selection Project”.
In the same year, a diverse design team of 1990s young designers was attracted by the unique hustle and bustle atmosphere of Songyang Old Street – the “Studio RE+N” composed of graduates from Harvard University, Tsinghua University, and Tongji University in architecture, also started their design research on intangible spaces, And invited 7 store owners from the old street to jointly create a set of scriptless, daily life perspective based documentary videos through a “participatory image pro...