上海 天上 Shanghai Tianshang

Today, Shanghai tends to become a generic city. A metropolis that is becoming more vertical and dense at the expense of a public space that is gradually shrinking while its population is growing. How then can we counter the negative effects of globalization and the generic city while restoring the public, political and poetic character of the entire city? In order to avoid its death as Thierry Paquot tells us and as numerous artists suggest it, 上海 天上 Shanghai Tianshang is trying to define an alternative metropolitan system. A system destined to be applied on the majority of the Chinese metropolis by 2080. This system would then integrate aerial public spaces in its vertical buildings in order to allow the citizens to re-appropriate all the dimensions of the city. 
This vertical city of Shanghai Tianshang, dense and skyward like the generic city, differs from it by its public spaces, by the polysemy of its spaces and its uses, and by its ability to promote human interaction. A vertical city alive with spatial appropriations and public life.
This exploration of the Shanghai of the future through Shanghai Tianshang is an invitation to imagine and propose a new way of making and thinking the dense and human vertical city. 
Shanghai Tianshang attempts to respond to the major issues facing a metropolis that is out of scale today and that it will still have to face tomorrow. While being aware of the realities of the city and the system of production of the contemporary city, Shanghai Tianshang then proposes through its poetics to rethink and dream the Shanghai of tomorrow, on the sea and above the sky.