STUDY AND PRACTICE
* Informal Urban Space Study and Renewal Practice in YULIN,CHENGDU,CHINA
非正式城市空间研究及更新实践
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No.2 Yulin Alley
1.
What is CACP?
1.什么是CACP?
CACP
COMMUNITY ART CREATIVE
PROJECT
China is at once experiencing rapid urbanization while undergoing the neglect of urban leftover spaces under non-privatized land property policies. The Community Art Creative Project (CACP), based in the No.2 Yulin Alley neighborhood, is a project rooted in this context, focusing on informal urban space study and renewal practice. Working as interdisciplinary team, it delves into urban and local community dynamics and the multiple facets of the Alley through plural practice such as design, sociology, and art, engaging professionals, communities, residents, municipal government, and student volunteers. By deciphering and restructuring the hidden social and spatial orders, relationships, and operational logics, and facilitated by spatial practices, it explores a new mechanism of participation and the possibilities of co-creating and reshaping urban living spaces and rights.
中国正在经历快速城镇化的同时也经历着非私有化土地财产政策下城市剩余空间的集体失焦。CACP社区艺术创享计划是基于此背景下以玉林二巷街区为基地的，关注非正式城市剩余空间研究与更新实践的项目。以跨学科小组合作的方式，从设计、社会学与艺术等多元实践切入本地社区，从专业学科组织、社区、居民、政府、大学生志愿者到市民志愿者等多元主体，进行城市与当地社区多面性的动态探讨。破解、重组隐藏的社会与空间的生成秩序、关系和运行逻辑，并通过空间实践来探索一种新的参与机制, 共创和重塑城市生活空间与权益的可能性。
2.
Space Design and Project
Framework
2.CACP空间设计及项目框架
3.
Resident Bicycle Storage Renovation and Build Together
3.居民车棚空间协力搭建
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《CACP 空间结构搭建日记 Record the Construction Process》
《CACP 空间结构搭建居民参与 Record the Construction Process Resident Participaation》
The light steel structure that is easy to recycle and assemble allows all residents and volunteers to easily build the space. The CACP construction team of 30 people completed the assembly of the main steel structure of the space in 5 days. On the night of completion, the construction team and neighbors celebrated and had hot pot in the space. When the space was just a steel frame structure, residents and community workers already held neighborhood governance discussions here.
便于回收和组装的轻钢结构能让所有居民及志愿者能简单搭建空间，CACP施工小组30个人通过5天时间一起完成了空间主要钢结构的组装。完工当晚施工小组和街坊邻居一起在空间庆祝和吃火锅。空间还只是钢架结构时，居民和社区工作人员已经这里开展街区治理讨论。
4.
Garden Creation Plan
4.花园营造计划
On the 60m long site of the original carport, we used 2/3 as space, leaving 1/3 for plant growth. The planting roof between the building and the residential building can also accommodate the growth of plants. During 2023, we discovered through the practice of neighborhood plant observation that plants, as a soft force, can naturally and easily connect local residents. In 2024, we plan to work with residents to jointly manage and create neighborhood gardens, which can not only serve as a natural landscape for the community, but also Create deeper relationships with local residents and invite resources related to nature, plants, and education into the community.
在原车棚60m长的场地上，我们利用了2/3作为空间使用，剩下1/3土地留给植物生长，在建筑与居民楼之间的种植屋面也可容纳植物的生长。2023年期间我们通过街区植物观察实践发现，植物作为一种柔软的力量可以自然并轻松地连接本地居民，2024年我们计划与居民共同治理营造邻里花园，既能够作为社区自然景观，也能够以此与本地居民产生更深层次关系，以及邀请与自然、植物、教育相关的资源进入社区。
5.
Interdisciplinary Team Cooperation Organization Joint Action
5.跨学科小组合作组织共同行动
6.
CACP Mapping
001
Neighborhood plant survey
街区植物调研
Under the guise of being a horticulture student, Nai You embarked on a journey of observing people and plants. While sorting through the fragmented and disordered photos, she discovered that people's desires and plants have always been intertwined with each other. They silently serve as the background of life, not only recording the subtle social scale between people, but also recording that in the process of rapid urban expansion and transformation, the vague land that has been reduced to urban wilderness still exists. What spontaneity and serendipity. By exploring the entangled relationship between humans and plants, we can gain a subtle and ambiguous perspective and gain a glimpse of part of the ecological logic behind the multiple spaces in the city. And often, a society's attitude towards nature is also a reflection of its treatment of itself.
奶油假借园艺学生的身份，开启了这趟人与植物的观察之旅。在整理如碎片一般无序的照片时，她发现人们的欲望与植物一直相互交缠在一起。它们默不作声地充当着生活的背景板，既记录着人与人之间微妙的社交尺度，也记录着在城市快速扩张、转型的进程里，沦为城市荒野的模糊地块还尚存着怎样的自发性与偶然性。通过探究人与植物的纠缠关系，我们可以得到一个幽微、暧昧的视角，进而窥见城市多重空间背后的部分生态逻辑。而往往，一个社会对待自然的态度也正是对待自身的反射。
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Sociological Observation
社会学观察
When we walk into a place, we will intuitively see Some people, things, things. occurs in these tables Under the image, everything deeper, abstract and macroscopic has never been seen. And those invisible forces shape the seen reality. Our perspective is also shaped by ourselves and the outside world - identity, experience, interests, education, and the ever-changing society. It filters out the reality we can see and also divides the blind spots outside our field of vision.
We try to enter ErXiang from a sociological perspective, and go deeper layer by layer through the interfaces between people and things that lead to urban life, to understand the phenomena, issues, theories and paths that we may turn a blind eye to. By understanding the urban space and social ecology we live in, we can understand the city’s operating model and reality. Phase, in order to intervene more effectively, change the city, and change ourselves.
当我们走进一个地方,会直观地看到一些人、事、物。发生于这些表象之下,更加深层、抽象与宏观的一切,却不曾被看见。而那些看不见的力量，塑造着被看见的现实。我们的视角也被自身和外界所塑造身份、经历、兴趣、教育，和不断变迁的社会，它筛选出我们得以看见的现实,也划分出视野以外的盲区。
我们尝试从社会学的视角切入二巷,从人群与事物这些通往城市生活的接口，逐层深入，去了解我们或许视而不见的现象、议题、理论与路径。通过理解我们身处的城市空间与社会生态，去认识这座城市的运转模式与真相，以更有效地介入其中,改变城市，以改变我们自身。
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Visual Design
视觉设计切片
In the process of observing and recording the daily objects in the alley, our sense of boundaries is constantly being adjusted, and we are constantly experiencing this neighborly relationship that cannot be escaped and must be faced. Every time I pick up the camera, I vaguely feel that this kind of unauthorized recording and inquiry is inappropriate, but these photographed items exist calmly in the "public view that everyone can enter", as if they don't care who is watching them. and records. Objects on the street are not always placed here unchanged. The "my family" dining table at noon may become "everyone's" mahjong table in the afternoon, just like the second alley. "My family's" and "everyone's" are not a fixed state. It contains many uncertain scenarios and diverse paths. These ambiguous spaces in the Second Alley are defined by the objects that exist here, and through these objects, the people in the Second Alley have formed a complex and tacit agreement on the use of these spaces. We see that these ordinary, everyday objects are humorous, roundabout, or straightforward, expressing how people living here get along with each other.
在观察和记录⼆巷的⽇常之物的过程中，我们的边界感不断的被调整、不断的在体会这种逃不开、必须去⾯对的邻⾥关系。每次拿起相机，隐隐觉得这种未经允许的记录和打探是不妥的，但这些被拍摄的物品坦然存在在“谁都可以进⼊的公共视野”中，仿佛并不在意被谁观看和记录。街道上的物品也并不总是⼀成不变的放置在此，中午的“我家的”饭桌，也许下午就变成了“⼤家的”麻将桌，正如⼆巷。“我家的”和“⼤家的”不是⼀个固定状态，它包含了许多不确定的情景和多样的路径。⼆巷⾥的这些暧昧空间被存在于此的物品定义，也经由这些物品，⼆巷的⼈们形成了复杂⽽默契的关于这些空间使⽤的暗默约定。我们看到，这些平实的⽇常之物，或幽默、或迂回、或直⽩的表露着⽣活在这⾥的⼈们如何共处。
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Fashion Design
服装设计切片
The plan to use knitting to display Yulin Erxiang came from our group’s discussions a long time ago. We wanted to use materials with temperature to display the most representative Erxiang satellite pattern possible. Knitting, also known as the art of thread, is a clothing making method with the attribute of connecting threads. It is also a very subjective way to express sustainability in the current environment. We hope that through our daily knitting, we can break down some formal barriers. It allows the ladies who support us to feel some closeness.
用针织的方式来展现玉林二巷这个计划来源于我们小组很早之前的探讨中，我们想要用带有温度的材质，来展示可能最最具象的二巷卫星图案。针织，又被成为一根线的艺术，是一种有着连接 脉络属性的服装制作方法。同时也是在当下环境中，表现可持续性且非常主观的一种手法。我们希望通过我们的日常织毛衣 这样的形式，能够破除某些形式上的壁垒。能够让支持我们的嬢嬢们，可以感受一些亲近的感觉.
7.
Furniture Modification Design
7.CACP家具改造设计
During the continuous improvement of space renovation, various temporary tools and materials will appear on the construction site, which can be used as temporary exhibition props or furniture. Based on the design principles of simple craftsmanship, multi-functional use, and cheap and easily available materials, the CACP team made full use of waste materials on site and in the neighborhood to transform and design new furniture.
在空间改造持续完善中工地会出现各种临时工具材料，可以作为临时展览道具或者家具使用。以简单工艺、多功能使用以及材料便宜易得为改造设计原则，CACP小组充分利用现场及街区废材改造设计为新的家具。
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Furniture Remodeling Workshop
8.家具改造工坊
These furnitures come from Yulin Erxiang area and surrounding residents. Some are broken furniture dug out from home by the aunties chatting on the street in Erxiang, some are idle furniture cleared from the courtyard, and some are furniture donated by neighbors out of friendship. These pieces of furniture with traces of time and personal memories have become an emotional link between the former owner and the space. Furniture renovation designers are intermediary translators who will use the transformed furniture to give back to future users of the community living room.
这些家具来自于玉林二巷片区及周围居民，有的是二巷街边闲聊的阿姨从家里翻出来的坏家具，有的是院落清理出来的闲置家具，有的是出于邻里友好赠送的家具。这些有着时间痕迹和个人记忆的家具成为前主人和空间的情感纽带，家具改造设计师则是中介转译者，将用改造家具回馈于社区客厅的未来用户。
9.
CACP OPEN DAY
Exhibition
9.CACP OPEN DAY展览
关于空间：设计中
About the Space: Desig-ing
The space is located in the backyard of the No.19 residential compound of Yulin East Street which was once a row of dilapidated and almost unused storage rooms. In collaboration with the local community and the residents of the compound, we rebuild the space in situ at the end of 2022. We do not wish the space to appear in the neighbourhood overnight, but rather, we hope to build it together with the community as we continue to create connections with people – hence the name “Design-ing”. The process of constructing the space was itself a practice of co-creation. In early 2023, under the guidance of professional light-steel structural engineers from Design For People Architecture Studio, we worked with residents, CACP action team members, and community staff to complete the main structure. As of today, the space continues to be designed and refined.
该空间位于玉林东街 19 号院的后院，这里曾是一排破旧不堪、几乎闲置的储藏室。2022年底，我们与当地社区及院落居民合作在原址重建了这个空间。我们不希望这个空间是一蹴而就地降落在这个街区，而是在和大家不断建立联系的过程中一起建造完善空间，这也是“设计中”这个名字的由来。空间的建造过程本身也是一次共创实践。2022年底一介完成建筑设计后，2023 年初在常民建筑专业轻钢结构工程师的指导下，我们与居民、CACP 行动小组成员、社区工作人员一起完成了主体结构的搭建。至今，空间仍然不断设计和完善中。
关于展览： 未确定的11个名字
About the Exhibition: 11 Names TBC
Taking No.2 Yulin Alley as a research object, we propose an analytical framework of “The Multi-layered Alley”, in which working groups of different disciplines intervened with different perspectives to observe and study the multiple facets of the Alley, and finally form a set of mapping to be displayed in the space. In this sense, the alley is the database and the space is the workstation. Four maps – Objects on the Boundary, The Seen and the Unseen, Function/Fashion Files 1.0, and The Untold Stories of Plants – will take audiences on a journey into the different dimensions of the Alley.
In addition, we also organised two series of workshops on old furniture: repair!remodel!restore! and sew!sew!sew!. Some of the old furniture, donated by residents and renovated by workshop volunteers, is placed in the "community living room" at the entrance of the space and shared with the public. We are using the furniture to improve the functionality of the space and to try to connect with more people at the same time.
There are eleven names for the exhibition and no final version has been determined; just as with the CACP and what we are doing itself cannot be fully determined. We would like to take this opportunity to present a true picture of all the progress we have made so far, including all the questions, chaos, thinking, actions, compromises, and ideals. Perhaps this is what CACP is all about - provoking thought and opening dialogue.
以玉林二巷为研究对象，我们提出了“多重二巷”的分析框架，不同学科的工作小组以不同的视角介入，对玉林二巷的多面性进行观察和研究，最终形成一套图谱在空间中展示。从这个意义上说，二巷就是数据库，空间就是工作站。四个地图切片——《边界之物》、《看见的和看不见的》、《实髦档案1.0》、《植物不说话》—— 将会带你走入不同维度的二巷。
除此之外，我们也组织了废旧家具工作坊：修修修、绣绣绣。我们收集到了一些来自街区居民赠送的家具和来自青年志愿者改造后的作品，将放在社区客厅共享给大众使用，填补空间功能的同时也尝试与更多居民建立连接。
展览名称有11个，没有确定最终版，正如CACP和我们所做的事情本身也无法完全确定。我们想借此机会真实地展示我们迄今为止取得的所有工作进展，包括所有的问题、混乱、思考、行动、灵感、困惑、趣味、想法、措施、方式、妥协、理想。也许这就是CACP的意义所在，即引发思考和开启对话。
《CACP Open Day(Draft Edition)》
《CACP 展览记录 Exhibition Record》
《志愿者娜娜的CACP记录 Vlog of volunteer Nana》
10.
Participating Partners
10.参与伙伴
10-1 CACP跨学科小组
Interdisciplinary Team：
一介、玉林东路社区、怪鸟设计、社会不科学小组、二巷时髦组、亏心社、MMWW design、一介OD小组3.0、成都市委宣传部、成都市文学艺术界联合会、成都市文艺发展服务中心。
10-2 CACP小组成员
Team Member：
一介：张唐、夏凡、陈申斌、黄曦、谢双霜、陶俊翔、张卉、陈唐奇、周雨涵、白帆。
怪鸟设计：张桢、龚礼、贾子怡、泰荣。
社会不科学小组：刘滢、何雨恬、易晓典、牟子心、杨可艺、刘埕汐。
二巷时髦组：汪圆圆、小馨、TUTU、桌子、大新。
朱毁毁工作室：朱毁毁、小花。
亏心社：伍瀚林、赵可儿、李雅丽、唐梦玥。
MMWW design： 杨可一、任银霄
一介OD小组3.0：何雨恬、易晓典、陶然之、于淼、牟子心、杨可艺、黄梓榆、刘埕汐、雷宇星星。
10-3 CACP空间建筑结构搭建参与人员
Participants in the Construction of Space Building Structures：
张唐、夏凡、陈申斌、黄曦、谢双霜、陶俊翔、张卉、陈唐奇、周雨涵、白帆、刘滢、汪圆圆、桌子、何雨恬、易晓典、陶然之、小花 、向伟、刘力建、伍敬秀、张学明、叶秀珍、叶雨馨、兰毅、王希、万月箫、杨金惠、武羊、杨迪、
向杰、姚雨辰（技术指导：常民建筑科技有限公司 ）
10-4 CACP OPENDAY 展览志愿者
Exhibition Volunteer：
强业鸿 吴维 左城 汪琳宜 叶雨馨 黄梓榆 何雨林 田园 胡宇阳 周思羽 何雨薇 雷宇星星 罗小然 袁子冉 孔祥蕊 沈圣涛 陈愉渝 肖宇 陈爱娜 郑静 李沐 吴颖娜 石普宁
10-5 建筑设计
Architectural Design：
一介建筑（ 张唐、夏凡、陈申斌、周雨涵 ）
11.
CACP Media
Communication
11.CACP的媒体传播
一介公众号宣传 Yijie WeChat Public Account Promotion
CACP M/Second Lane: Boundary Objects
《CACP M/二巷·边界之物》
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/l6doBlXDfnzz-PoXwfpDqg
CACP M/Yulin Second Lane Fashion Archive 1.0
《CACP M/玉林二巷时髦档案1.0》
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/AdAH4c87n-xFMwXEEv9ynQ
CACP M/Multiple Second Alley - Visible and Invisible
《CACP M/多重二巷·看见的和看不见的》
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/J4v6k51XLxSFE5JNwyxIng
CACP M/Second Lane: Boundary Objects
《CACP M/二巷·边界之物》
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/l6doBlXDfnzz-PoXwfpDqg
CACP W/The space is already set up, but we still lack tables, chairs, and benches
《CACP W/空间倒是搭好了，但还缺桌椅板凳》
"Invite you to come and renovate the furniture this Sunday"
《这周日邀请你一起来改造家具吧》
"The base is not yet built, but the rocket is about to be launched!"
《基地还没搭建好，但火箭已经要发射！》
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/QZhST3zvatvb5R5ICYBz3g
"We put in a lot of effort to get residents to come in and watch the exhibition."
《为了让居民进门看展，我们费尽心思》
"We peeked at the diaries of the exhibition volunteers and cried uncontrollably."
《我们偷看了展览志愿者们的日记，哭麻了》
"CACP Volunteer Night, Wave Without Saying Goodbye"
《CACP志愿者之夜，挥手不说再见》
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Dwted2IOn0_6Xij4kfDLlA
其他媒体宣传Other Media Promotions
"Will the story of Yulin be finished?"
《玉林的故事，会被讲完吗》
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/zA1Fgg43pbWUF7s35vnVgg
Why are more and more researchers coming to Chengdu for field research
《为什么越来越多研究者来成都做田野调查》
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/PpiyceYdwD4lev8R28J1fA
"World Book Day, come and read some interesting and" toothy "books"
《世界读书日，来读一些有趣且“牙尖”的书》
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/0R12a3qIm12WeiOTJ4C8wg
6.22-7.22/CACP Open Day in Yulin Second Lane
《6.22-7.22/来玉林二巷CACP开放日》
://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/4Aq1K6PFqO-jRdKp59VmQA
Uncle Counting Trees/ZINE CHAT22
《叔叔数树/ZINE CHAT22》
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/HV9bEVs5P-5g-SjzZm_Ijw
3.自媒体宣传Self-Media Promotion
"The most bizarre exhibition I've seen in Chengdu!! Hidden in the vegetable market"
《在成都看过最奇葩的展！！藏在菜市场里》
"Free exhibitions in the market! Absurd but reasonable..."
《菜市场里的免费展览！离谱但合理……》
"The community exhibition currently on display in Yulin Second Lane, Chengdu is related to you"
《成都玉林二巷正在展出的社区展览与你有关》
"Community Exhibition in the Market [Draft Version]"
《菜市场里【草稿版】的社区展览》
"Chengdu's hottest exhibition in July/CACP OPEN DAY"
《成都七月最有温度的展/CACP OPEN DAY》
"Exhibition/I can't believe you can also see artworks in the market"
《展览/不敢相信在菜市场也能看到 艺术作品》
"In Yulin, did you actually see an exhibition that was still a draft?"
《在玉林，竟然看了一个还是草稿的展览？》
"Nominated for the Romance of the Market in Yulin Erxiang, a Street for Strolling"
《提名好逛的街/玉林二巷，菜市场的浪漫》
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