Established since 1998, the HEG NGO has aimed to build a global networking of art and architecture and to reinforce the operation of non-government-organization for a better urban environment in the era of post-human society.

Works of the HEG NGO includes:

to provide exchange of information and knowledge-based information channel to governments and concerned communities around the world

to assist the planning of cultural affairs and associated events for public and private entities

to organize art and architectural workshops and conferences as well as to produce publications.

Over the years, the HEG NGO has facilitated cross- disciplinary interaction and information exchange between people in Asia, Europe, North America and other parts of the world.

Asides from holding and participating international events, HEG NGO has also a role of interfering the cultural political agenda in the process of globalization.

April 5 (Mon) - 10 (Sat), 1999

What's Up?

The Hwa Shan District is in the city center nearby Taipei Main Station, which includes the area of Taipei Brewery site and former Hwa Shan Train Station and a portion of surrounding commercial and residential district.

The brewery operation ceased in mid 80'. The abandoned warehouses and facilities are being utilized by local people who occupy these spaces to do manufacturingworks, to take wedding photos, to shoot commercial clips, to party, etc..

In1992, this 7.2 acres of land was designated for governmental uses and the site for new building of Legislative Yuan.

Considering the fact that this area is under the aviation height control and two elevated highway bridges intersect at the corner of the entry of brewery site, some artists, activists and local residents stood up to oppose the proposal of a highrise office which may cramp their living space.

After the upheaval, due to the internal disagreement on the budget issues within the Lagislative Yuan, the construction was then pending.

Allied people in town organized an Initiative of Hwa Shan Arts District to work on the alternatives, trying to transform Hwa Shan into an art and cultural zone by re-use of old industial structures and spaces.

What shall we do?

Schedule:

Workshop 5th -10th

Evening Lectures

5th - 10th    19:00-21:00    lectures at IT Park

Participants:

Chi Ti-Nan, UF organizer & architect, Beijing / Taipei
Sohn-Joo Minn, architect, Seoul
Robert Mull, architect, London
Jonathan Hill, architect, London
Karl-Heinz Kolpf, artist & architect, Vienna
Nicholas Boyarsky, architect, London
Ravi Sundaram, sociologist, Deli
Sand Helsel, architect, Melbourne
Bernhard Schreiner, film maker, Berlin
Yung-Ho Chang, architect, Beijing
Ralf Schmitt, artist, Berlin
Bernd Mey, architect, Frankfurt
Clive Sall, architect, London
Kay Ngee Tan, architect, Singapore
Simon Herron, architect, London
Steve McAdam, architect, London

Hwa Shan
Taipei Brewery, Hwa Shan District
address: #1, Section 1, Pa-Teh Road
Taipei 100, Taiwan
tel: +886 2 23929498 fax: +886 2 23219507
email: whatart@ms34.hinet.net
website：http://www.art-district.org.tw

January 20 (Sun) - 23 (Wed), 2002

Theme: Urban Bunker and Surface Tactics

Since 1999, Urban Flashes has been a move to generate urban situations in which people meet, talk, work together, exchange ideas, giving proposals, and play, which may eventually disturb and change urban development.

At the same time, we are aware of the chaotic condition resulted by inner and outer ruthless forces in Asian cities and taking it as main reference and a point of departure.

- Aroused from current technological progress, on the third stage as Paul Virilio pointed, we are probably living in a reduced bunkerized space and a personalized realm of digital flows, rather than the physical mobility and emancipation.

- To view the futuristic work of Archigram again, we could also find different ideas about mobilization and adaptivity among the key members.

- After 911 incident, we felt the urgent need of new strategies on the configuration of earth surface, that is,a new urban landscape to be envisioned and constructed.

Schedule:

Symposium + Exhibition 21st - 23rd

Participants:

Chi Ti-Nan, UF organizer & architect, Beijing / Taipei
Nicholas Boyarsky, architect, London
Neil Leach, architectural theorist, London
Sand Helsel, architect, Melbourne
Gary Chang, architect, Hong Kong
Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, architect, Tokyo
Macro Casagrande, architect, Helsinky
Kuang-Chein Bee, architect, Taipei
Alisa Andrasek, architect, New York
Rui Leao, architect, Macao
Karl-Heinz Klopf, artist, Vienna

ITPark
I-Tong Park Gallery & Photo Studio
address: 41, 2f, I-Tong Street,
Taipei, Taiwan
tel: +886 2 25077243, +886 2 25082985
fax: +886 2 25071149
email: a5070677@ms18.hinet.net
website：http：//www.etat.com/itpark

April 12 (Fri) - 14 (Sun), 2002

Theme: How Small is the City?

The advent of Modern city was out of the call from the architects and artists in the early 20th century and this is the time for a serious move to the next agenda of city planning and architecture from the architects and artists again.

The city has been big and a big issue to tackle. Is there any way we could level down the urban conditions to the intimate realms or look within the city rather than outside of this conglomeration?

It is thus a necessity to investigate the Asian cities which hybridize the Modern planning with cultural heritages and by now reach the madnessof density, mobility and mutation for development, become a destiny to us.

How do we go about approaching, mapping, adventuring, mediating and making the city of today?

Schedule:

Symposium 12th -14th

Participants：

Martin Sturm, organizer & director, Linz
Chi Ti-Nan, UF organizer & architect, Beijing / Taipei
Peter Riepl, co-organizer & architect, Linz
Gunther Feuerstein, architect, Vienna
Manray Hsu, curator, Taipei
Jochen Becker, theorist, Berlin
Svein Hatloy, architect, Bergen
Nobuaki Furuya, architect, Tokyo
Karl-Heinz Klopf, artist, Vienna
Nicholas Boyarsky, architect, London
Sand Helsel, architect, Melbourne
Gary Chang, architect, Hong Kong
cj Lim, architect, Kuala Lumpur / London
Macro Casagrande, architect, Helsinky
Ying-Chun Hsueh, architect, Taichung
H.H.Lim, artist, Rome
Guyon Chung, architect, Seoul
Heiner Schilling, photographer, Koln
Bernhard Schreiner, film maker, Berlin
Peter Lang, architect, New York
Wolfgang Koelbl, architect, Vienna

OK

address: Dametzstrase 30
A-4020 Linz, Austria
tel: +43 0 732 784178-0 fax: +43 0 732 775684
email: office@ok-centrum.at

November 23 (Sat) - 24 (Sun), 2002

Theme: Dirty City Cute World

There are invisible tactics employed in daily activities and interactions in the shaping of social-cultural domains and physical constructions.

By going through a process of plasmodial collaboration, the Flashers felt the urgent need of less formal approaches and in-between actions to go beyond the grass root resistance and heroic architectural demonstration as we know of today.

Art of war may become the core of architecture and city planning, and a micro-urbanism is awaiting us to discover.

Schedule：

Symposium 23th - 24th

Participants：

Chi Ti-Nan, UF organizer & architect, Beijing / Taipei
Robert Mull, co-organizer & chairman, London
Nicholas Boyarsky, co-organizer & architect, London
Raymund Ryan, architect, Dublin
Hiro Hemmi, architect, Tokyo
Svein Hatloy, architect, Bergen
Juan Carlos Sanchez Tappan , architect, Barcelona/Mexico City
Kazuyuki Hanada, architect, Weimar / Tokyo
Macro Casagrande & Sami Rintala, architect, Helsinky
Wolfgang Koelbl, architect, Vienna
Udo Garritzmann, architect, Amersterdam
Joel Claisse, architect, Brussels
Gil M. Doron, theorist, Tel Aviv
Sue Barr & Justine Grahame, photographer, London
Laurent Gutierrez & Valerie Portefaix, Architect, Hong Kong
Peter Lang, Architect, New York

Department of Architecture and Spatial Design,
London Metropolitan University
address: North Campus, Spring House, 40-44 Holloway Road
London N7 8JL, UK
tel: +44 0 20 7133 2199 fax: +44 0 20 7133 2039

September 7 (Sun) - 11 (Thu), 2003

Theme: Cultural Patchworks in the Public Space

The contemporary city can be seen as a quilt of patchworks, a collection of fragments incidentally woven into an indeterminable whole, which parallels cross-social-cultural encounters occurred within a global context.

Is the notion of city planning to assume a preconceived structure that can no longer be sustainable? Could the existing reality be a model that translates, contradicts or challenges the received ideas about basic Western models of urban life?

Istanbul as a city of complex historical layers and territorial multiplicities may be one of the better places to investigate the in-situ wars and negotiations behind the scenes and to locate the ephemeral fractals of combinations in progression.

A five-day workshop with international participants will focus on Istanbul's newly extended land areas to forge proposals for sites of multiplicities. In the meetings along with the workshop, architects, artists and critics will discuss the idea of an inclusive and mutable approach to create urban strategies that do not necessarily fit into any taken-for-granted planning and design method.

Site: New Parks in Istanbul

Since the early 1980s, a series of urban renewal projects have taken place along side of the Golden Horn and the Marmara Sea in Istanbul. These projects, in general, aimed at improving the infrastructure of the city and making it accessible to global economic and cultural flow. The clearance of the major clusters of nineteenth-century inner-city settlements and building wide boulevards were some of the readily observable outcomes of this process. Former industrial zones of factories and workshops were removed and replaced with parks and cultural facilities.

As a result, the facade and the landscape of the city have undergone a decisive transformation. One fundamental aspect of this transformation was out of the provision of vast open spaces on the seaside, which are mainly used for recreational and leisure purposes, changing Istanbul from a water city towards a land city.

The 'new parks' are either landfills on the shores of the Marmara Sea running for kilometers on, or the sites of former factories and sweatshops on the Golden Horn. People come to these extended land for jogging, walking, fishing, biking, wandering around, swimming and picnicking in spring and summer, in which laden with in-city tourism, immigration patterns, ad-hoc architectures, and the use of particular objects such as little gas heaters, check-board games, water containers, home-cooked food brought in huge pots,textiles laid out for picnic-city, make-shift caravans, kebab and soda houses, and car sex.

Each usage includes genuine tactics employed in search for individuality in the public space. This is historically in tandem with the creation of new realms out of the authorized urban spaces of Istanbul. The form and meaning of public spaces are further entangled by the participants. We can peek at the various ways of living in the public space linked with social-cultural identities. Who goes there? Who goes there at particular times and the others not? What do they do? Who does the peddling?What do they sell and to whom? These formulate thepatchworks of life in the new parks.

Schedule：

Workshop 7th -11th

Participants：

Vasif Kortun, organizer & curator, Istanbul
Chi Ti-Nan, UF organizer & architect, Beijing / Taipei
Caglar Keyder, sociologist, Istanbul
Osman Vlora, architect, London / Istanbul
Namik Erkal, architect, Istanbul
Can Cinici, architect,, Istanbul
Mehmet Kutukcuoglu, architect, Istanbul
Orhan Esen, historian & artist, Istanbul
Oda Projesi, artist group, Istanbul
Gulsun Karamustafa, artist, Istanbul
Firdevs Candil Culcu, artist, Istanbul
Ufuk Gungor, artist, Istanbul
Zeynep Guzel, artist, Istanbul
Heterotopia, artist group, Istanbul
Tansel Korkmaz, architect, Istanbul
Nevzat Sayin, architect, Istanbul
Han Tumertekin, architect, Istanbul
Emre Arolat, architect, Istanbul
Ipek Akpinar, architect, Istanbul
Ihsan Bilgin, architect, Istanbul
Cana Bilsel, architect, Istanbul
Svein Hatloy, architect, Bergen
Sohn-Joo Minn, architect, Seoul
Raymund Ryan, curator & architect, Pittsburgh / Dublin
Anna Ferrer, artist, Barcelona
Karl-Heinz Kolpf, artist & architect, Vienna
Nicholas Boyarsky, architect, London
Laurent Gutierrez & Valerie Portefaix, architects, Hong Kong
Esra Akcan, architect, New York / Istanbul
Peter Lang, architect, Rome / New York
Suha Bekki, architect, London
H.H.Lim, artist, Rome
Asa Drougge, Goran Lindberg
& Jonas Berglund, landscape architect, Stockholm
Beatrice Hansson, artist, Stockholm
Saskia Draxler, artist, Berlin

Platform Garanti Comtemporary Art Center
address: Istiklal Caddesi 276, Beyoglu
34340 Istanbul, Turkey
tel: +90 212 2932361 fax: +90 212 2933071
email: platform@garanti.com.tr
website： http:// www.platform.garanti.com.tr

February 25(Wed) – 27(Fri), 2004

Theme: Open Form in Great Number

Making a great number of identical elements legible by adding more elements in a visual structure, not taking away existing elements, The richness in this expression lies both in the number of elements and in their individual identity.

To make this comprehensible more elements are added artistically. The readability lies in an expanding order by a visual structuring.

The quality of all the forms, as well as the richness of the whole, would get lost if we take away elements to make it readable.

An open form as this will loose its qualities if the elements were restructured into a geometrical order

Site: Allmenningen in Bergen

Schedule：

Participants：

Svein Hatloy, organizer & architect, Bergen
Chi Ti-Nan, UF organizer & architect, Beijing / Taipei
Marco Casagranda, architect, Helsinky
Kazuyuki Hanada, architect, Weimar / Tokyo

BAS Bergen Arkitekt Skole
address: Sandviksboder 59-61a
5035 Bergen, Norway
tel: +47 55363891, +47 55363880 Fax: +47 55363881
e-mail: laerer@bergenarkitektskole.no
website： http://www.bergenarkitektskole.no

May 29(Sat) - July 31(Sat), 2004

Theme: Micro-Urban Istanbul

Departing from investigating micro-urban conditions within the preconceived macro-structure, Urban Flashes has focused on the shifting of the paradigm of city and the unprecedented complexity containing both pre- and post-modern traits.

It indicates the existing reality could be seen as a reservoir of interrelated micro-zones which actively divert the direction of urban development.

In 2003, invited by Platform Contemporary Art Center, the Flashers landed in Istanbul to conduct investigations to portray the faces of micro-urban Istanbul and, through exhibition in 2004, to send messages to the public about the possible tactics to be delivered to assure the genuine life of Istanbul

Curator：

Chi Ti-Nan

Exhibition Design:：

Chi Ti-Nan & Karl-Heinz Klopf

Exhibitors：

Esra Akcan, New York / Istanbul
Nicholas Boyarsky, London
Chi Ti-Nan, Beijing / Taipei
Anna Ferrer, Barcelona
Svein Hatloy, Bergen
Heterotopia, Istanbul
Karl-Heinz Klopf, Vienna
Sohn-Joo Minn, Seoul
Peter Lang, Rome / New York
Gutierrez + Portefaix, Hong Kong
Oda Projesi, Istanbul

Essay Contributor:：

Ryan Bishop, Singapore
Marco Casagrande, Helsinky
Sand Helsel, Melbourne
Gülsün Karamustafa+Zeynep Güzel
+Firdevs Candil, Istanbul
Raymund Ryan, Pittsburgh/Dublin
Pelin Tan, Istanbul

Coordination：

Evren Uzer

Brochure editing:

Chi Ti-Nan, Pelin Tan & Evren Uzer

Graphic Design：

Ucman Balaban

Local Architect:

Seyda Arguner

Sponsors：

Platform Contemporary Art Center, Turkey
Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Bergen Architectural School, Norway
Yonsei Urban Architecture Lab, Korea
Taipei City Government, Taiwan
Human Environment Group NGO, Taiwan

Acknowledgement：

Sheng-Tsun Lu, Che Wang, Chen-Tung Liu,
Lacin Karaoz, Secil Canby, Relax Chi,
Chih-Ning Lee, Jo-Chien Lee, Cenk Dereli,
Cigdem Mahsunlar, Aziz Kocanaogullari

GG

Garanti Galeri
address: Istiklal Caddesi, no. 187, Beyoglu
34430 Istanbul, Turkey
tel: +90 212 293 6371
email: garantigaleri@garanti.com.tr

January 3 (Tue) - 8 (Sun), 2006

Theme: The Nallah

River in India is holy. It is a place for birth and to die, and at the same time of endless uses for life. However, the Nallah, the natural srteam originated from the mountain, which has no perennial water body, maybe less adored, is another case.

Today, the nallah in Mumbai had become a dumping site and a carrier of sewage. Residents have lived with the stink and filth in and around the area with the look of a slum. At the same time, some took over the silted land along the river bank for other uses. Consequently, the nallah area suffered serious flooding in the raining seasons in recent years.

Some segments of the nallah in the newly developed area were purposefully walled to prevent the water flow and to block the unpleasant view and scent. In certain areas, none the less, we can still find people using the nallah as usual for washing and cleaning.

To avoid making facial beautification, the Flashers are going to walk along the path of the nallah to detect the spots for actions. By recognizing the social-cultural reality. the healing of the nallah will take a longer time after the transformation of public awareness.

Site: The Nallah in the P-South Ward in North Mumbai

Schedule：

Workshop 3th - 6th

Evening Lectures

Symposium 7th - 8th

Participants：

Anirudh Paul, organizer & dy.derictor of KRVIA, Mumbai
Chi Ti-Nan, UF organizer & architect, Beijing / Taipei
Rahul Gore, co-organizer & architect, Mumbai
Shirish Beri, co-organizer & architect, Kolhapur
K.T.Ravindran, architect, Deli
Ravi Sundaram & Sarai,urban reaearch group, Deli
Shekhar Krishnan & CRIT, urban activist group, Mumbai
Kaushik Mukhopadhyay, artist, Mumbai
Madhusree Dutta, film maker, Mumbai
Milind Ranadive, architect, Kolhapur
Svein Hatloy, architect, Bergen
Sohn-Joo Minn, architect, Seoul
Marco Casagrande, architect, Helsinky
Angelika Fitz, curator, Vienna
LabPlace Istanbul, Zuhre Sozeri & Pelin Tan,
architect & sociologist, Istanbul
An Architektur, Oliver Clemens, Jesko Fezer,
Kim Forster, Anke Hagemann,
Sabine Horlitz, Andreas Muller,
architects group, Berlin
other invited architects, artists and critics

Coordination: KRVIA, UDRI, & HEG

KRVIA
Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Istitute
for Architecture and Environmental Studies
address: Vidyanidhi Marg, Off 10th Road, Juhu Scheme
Mumbai 400049, India
tel: +91-22- 2670 0918 fax: +91-22-2620 0923
email: krvia@vsnl.com
website：http://www.krvia.net