Life-styled: Health and Places

Editorial Work for Book by editors David Mah + Leire Villoria

*Published 2016 by JOVIS

Scope: Research Assistant, Editing, Translation, Graphic Design and Layout, Photography, Diagramming, Co-author of Studio Overview Chapter

Description: This book was created with a compilation of guest essays, research work, and studio projects from the Graduate School of Design and the School of Public Health. The content grapples with the Chinese development model, urban planning and design, and public health. It traces the history of public health and urban planning as well as the specificity of the Chinese context. The collection of work traces existing models and proposes new projections of what a healthy environment might look like.

Much of the research included documentation of historical development types as a compliment to newly proposed models. These typologies also imply certain administrative and social systems that organize space and distribution of amenities.

Photographic documentation of Shanghai and Songjiang New Town as part of the studio research phase

As a premise, the existing fabric is a foundational component in evaluating the variety of lifestyles that are permitted or cultivated by the physical context. Photographic documentation of different typologies and infrastructures is important in giving legibility to the ways in which people live.

Photo of canal near Songjiang New Town.

Older residential street corridor in Shanghai’s Lilong neighborhoods.