Chinese contemporary art start in 1979, the new art era has led to the emergence of a large number of art workers (artists). Workshop with large space and quiet environment would be the ideal place to do the artwork, Huantie Art District is one of the ideal places in China (Beijing), with low rent and big empty space. In 2017, Huantie Art District faces demolition and reconstruction because of the informal construction, security problem ( the structure of the building), and land-use problems. This kind of situation also occurred in other art districts. From this, I began to think about what kind of way can we help artists maintain their creation and survival in Beijing, as an architecture student, what can I do for them. To weave the broken land, protect the Art District, have a sense of belonging, and become a city within city.

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This thesis is a series of projects that attempt to create a fully imagined and described world for a woodworker. Each project, titled A House and A Workshop, focuses on different ideas as the imagined world becomes clearer. A House and A Workshop 1.1 explores my own images of the two buildings and how that influences the world that I describe. It also focuses on how the building type can inform the physical shape of each. A House and A Workshop 1.2 begins to investigate the daily rituals and routines of the imagined inhabitant. The question is raised of how those things can and should influence the architecture. A House and A Workshop 1.3 explores the physical relationship of the two buildings and the movement that the relationship implies. The idea of a room within a room emerges as the imagined world of the woodworker comes into focus. A House and A Workshop 1.4 seeks to clarify the ideas that I had been working with during the year by describing a more idealized world than the other versions. The value of making things and choosing to live that kind of life is an important aspect of this project. Finally, there is a project titled, A Chair, that lies outside the series of houses and workshops. Itâ s a demonstration rather than a description of the ideas that were explored during the thesis year. / Master of Architecture

Operating within a dense urban context, a public building recognizes the activities that are contained within its boundaries... further tying the place to a larger urban spatial sequence. / Master of Architecture

Yes / The paper reports on the World Social Science (WSS) Fellows seminar on Risk Interpretation and Action (RIA), undertaken in New Zealand in December, 2013. This seminar was coordinated by the WSS Fellows program of the International Social Science Council (ISSC), the RIA working group of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) program, the IRDR International Center of Excellence Taipei, the International START Secretariat and the Royal Society of New Zealand. Twenty-five early career researchers from around the world were selected to review the RIA framework under the theme of ‘decision-making under conditions of uncertainty’, and develop novel theoretical approaches to respond to and improve this framework. Six working groups emerged during the seminar: 1. the assessment of water-related risks in megacities; 2. rethinking risk communication; 3. the embodiment of uncertainty; 4. communication in resettlement and reconstruction phases; 5. the integration of indigenous knowledge in disaster risk reduction; and 6. multi-scale policy implementation for natural hazard risk reduction. This article documents the seminar and initial outcomes from the six groups organized; and concludes with the collective views of the participants on the RIA framework / The RIA Fellows would like to thank the following organisations for financial and logistical support: the World Social Science Fellows Programme of the International Social Science Council; the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk programme; the IRDR International Center of Excellence, Taipei; the International START Secretariat; and the Royal Society of New Zealand. / The World Social Science (WSS) fellows on Risk Interpretation and Action (RIA) include the core writing team of this report (alphabetical after leads): Emma E. H. Doyle, Shabana Khan, Carolina Adler, Ryan C. Alaniz, Simone Athayde, Kuan-Hui Elaine Lin, Wendy Saunders, Todd Schenk, Fabiola Sosa-Rodriguez, and Victoria Sword-Daniels, which has been written on behalf of the wider group that attended the seminar (in alphabetical order): Olayinka Akanle, Marie-Ange Baudoin, Chiung Ting Chang, Karianne De Bruin, Riyanti Djalante, Christine Eriksen, Hsiang-Chieh Lee, Jyoti Mishra, Victor O. Okorie, David R Olanya, Goda Perlaviciute, Naxhelli Ruiz-Rivera, Suzanne Vallance, Xinlu Xie, Lun Yin. The organisers and scientists that also attended the RIA Fellows seminar included (in alphabetical order): Sarah Beaven, Charles Ebikeme, Richard Eiser, David Johnston, Christine Kenney, Tony Liu, Douglas Paton, Sarah Schweizer, Vivi Stavrou.