Janzi Box: A Pavillion of 15000 Activators of Public Space, Beijing, China by SPARK

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社区是家庭的延伸。它们伴随孩子们成长并且慰籍了退休人群。它们提供了与社区成员们一同成长的社会生活基础设施，并提供了一种习惯与行为养成的文化氛围。公共空间作为一个平台促进了社区的社会互动。在北京设计周的第五年，我们旨在寻找最令人兴奋并具有丰富品质的北京公共空间之一，以展示其自发和动态的特质。

我们决定选择这个城市公共空间的日常活动之一：踢毽子。其作为一种传统亚洲游戏，自汉代起（公元前206年-公元220年）便开始流行。在踢毽子游戏中，玩家的目标是利用身体将有重量感的毽子踢来踢去。在这个意义上，作为一个小玩意，“踢毽子”唤起了社交互动以及公共空间的自发使用，并且是有益健康的有氧运动。在游戏中，它可以将一个空余的空间变成一个令人兴奋的游乐场所。踢毽子能够使社区间彼此了解并增强社会凝聚力。它穿越了北京的许多空间，这就是为什么我们希望将其呈现在我们提案中。我们将北京设计周构想为一个具有影响力的平台，通过这个平台展示中国北京和世界北京的冰山一角，以及传统民俗在公共空间中的表达。

Communities are an extension of the family.  They watch over the children and support its members when retirement comes.  As the community grows, so does its infrastructure for social life, providing cultural training grounds for habits and behaviours. Public spaces are the platforms that foster social interaction for communities.  In the 5th anniversary of the Beijing Design Week, we are seeking to showcase one of the most exciting and rich qualities of Beijing’s public spaces: its spontaneity and dynamism.

We decided to use an item that is part of the everyday life of public spaces in the city: The “Jianzi” (毽子).  A traditional Asian game played since the Han dynasty (206 BC–220 AD). In a Jianzi game, players use their bodies to keep a heavily weighted shuttlecock from reaching the ground. In this sense the “Jianzi” is a small item that calls for social interaction and spontaneous use of public space. It can transform a leftover space into an exciting playground during the course of the game. It allows communities to coalesce, strengthening social cohesion, while adding all the health benefits that is required in such a vigorous aerobic exercise. It vitalises many residual spaces throughout Beijing and this is why it is very important for us to materialise this phenomenon into our proposal. We conceive Beijing Design Week as an influential platform to showcase, both nationally and internationally, a little bit of Beijing and its traditional folk expressions. 

我们设计了一个由15,000个毽子组成的容器，将它放在白塔寺区域一个空置的地块上，作为今年北京设计周的一个全新枢纽。毽子容器的设计在于将毽子游戏与玩家进行转化，创造出人与毽子间亲密的关系，人们不仅仅是身体上的参与，感性和情感也会通过感官被唤醒。

全部毽子将会被赠与参观者，使得他们通过聚集来创造出属于自己的公共空间，并享受快乐时光。15,000个毽子会在这个城市不同的空间再现。从这个意义上说，我们的展馆不再仅仅存在于原先的位置，而且被参观者带到了城市的每个公共角落。

We designed a vessel composed of 15.000 Jianzi units that will land on an empty site in the Baitasi area (白塔寺), a new hub for the Beijing Design Week this year. The Jianzi Vessel is designed to invert the Jianzi game with the players, creating an intimate connection with the Jianzi Item and engaging not only in a physical but also in a perceptual and emotional level through people’s senses. 

All the Jianzi units will be given away to the visitors so they can make their own public space by getting together and having a good time. This will potentially represents 15.000 Jianzi matches in different parts of the city. In this sense our pavilion is not only located on the place where it sits in Baitasi, but wherever the users decide to take a little piece of it.

主办方：SPARK
项目总监：Jan Felix Clostermann
设计师：Sebastian Loaiza
团队：余皓昕

时间：9.23-10.7
地址：白塔寺区域三清观外小广场

Organizer: SPARK
Project Director: Jan Felix Clostermann
Designer: Sebastian Loaiza 
Team: Claire Yu

Date: 9.23-10.7
Address: Sanqingguan Square, South BTS Area, Xicheng District

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