锐态通过一系列的城市活动发起了关于当地社会与文化特性的调研。我们的目标是在城市发展中的不同角色譬如政府，开发商，设计者与当地民众之间建立沟通的桥梁。

我们的调研建立在共同参与的基础上，使来不同领域的学者，艺术家，设计师与当地社区融合为一体。

社会与文化调解

我们参与到设计项目初期阶段，组织调研深入基层，通过社区的参与对话，刺激并诱发设计师的设计灵感，从而丰富项目内容。

调研反映了市民的意见，确保了在城市更新，公共空间和公园设计及城市规划过程中的公众的参与。

这种方法在促使凝聚城市归属感，是尊重城市发展的更深层次的理解和热爱。

除了提供项目独特的设计方法外，由之引发更广泛的媒体关注，特别是在设计与施工阶段。基地将不再落寞，人们会持续关注它们的发展进程及延续基地的历史。

文化与社会间的调研链接了城市的过去与未来，是打造塑造城市新活力形象的基石。

这些成果已经在2012深圳香港城市建筑双城双年展展出，并将代表深圳－设计之都参加2013年法国圣蒂安设计双年展，在其中的联合国教科文组织(UNESCO) “EmpathiCity” 展览中展出。

除此以外，这些成果也已被若干杂志，报纸及电视进行了专题报道。

Riptide cultivates research on local social and cultural identities through a series of urban events. Our objective is to build communication-bridges between urban actors: government, developers, designers and local residents. Our investigations are based on a participatory model, and integrate scholars, artists, and designers from diverse backgrounds and nationalities with individuals from local communities. 

Social and cultural mediation

Initiated in the early stages of a design project, mediation enhances contextual understanding, ensures a deeper and more meaningful dialogue with local residents, and ultimately stimulates, inspires and enriches the design itself. 

The mediation process helps illuminate and clarify the citizens’ state of mind and ensures a mutual understanding of the requirements of urban development, public spaces, park designs or urban

planning. This approach instils a sense of ownership among the citizens, and confers respect for their voices within the design process. In addition to creating a unique project, this process generates positive and extended media coverage throughout the design and construction phases. The collaborative development method gives life and voice to people and place, enabling it to record and create its own history. Cultural and social mediation methods allow us to link a site’s past to its future and enable the creation of a new and vibrant city identity.

This work was presented during the Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism in Shenzhen in 2011, in Hong Kong in 2012, and, currently in Shenzhen - City of Design during the UNESCO’s exhibition “Empathicity,” part the French Biennial of Design, 2013, as well as in magazine, newspaper and television coverage.

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