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Contributor
Beatrice Leanza

Beatrice Leanza is a cultural strategist and design critic based in Beijing. She is the former creative director of Beijing Design Week (2013–16), chief curator of the ongoing research project ‘Across Chinese Cities’, featured at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2014, 2016 and 2018 editions) and co-founder of The Global School, China’s first independent institute for design and creative research.

Features
Everything and Everywhere is a School: What Can We Learn from the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial?

Seeking to address the inadequacies of current educational models is an urgent and ambitious task, but this show’s answers fall into nostalgia

BY Beatrice Leanza |
Opinion
Designed Differently

Once dubbed ‘the world’s factory floor’, Shenzhen has re-invented itself as a centre of innovation 

BY Beatrice Leanza |
Profiles
Social Structures

Community-minded, small-scale, sustainable: designing for China's 'new normal'

BY Beatrice Leanza |
Interviews
Grand Designs

An interview with Aric Chen, M+ curator of architecture and design, about his plans for the collection and revisiting historical global narratives

BY Beatrice Leanza |
Reviews
6th Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture

Various Venues, Shenzen, China

BY Beatrice Leanza |
Opinion
Green Shoots

Ecological innovation in Chinese architecture

BY Beatrice Leanza |
Reviews
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