The October public program is the centerpiece of Planetary Embassy in China. Bringing together researchers, artists and industry professionals, it offers three days of talks, workshops, and field encounters exploring how we might live, build, and think beyond the human world.
Day 1 – Thursday, 29 October
14:00-16:00 – Planetary Embassy Opening Symposium
Day 2 – Friday, 30 October
09:30-11:30 – Swiss Building Tech Roundtable (in collaboration with SwissCham China)
13:00-13:30 – Cabanon 2050 Guided Tour
14:00-16:00 – Panel: Whole-Life Thinking Beyond the Building
17:00-18:10 – Panel: Counting What Matters: Data, Biodiversity, and Sustainable Landscapes
18:00-18:30 – Cabanon 2050 Guided Tour
19:00-20:00 – Panel: From Spore to Sky – Encountering a More-Than-Human World through Art and Science
Day 3 – Saturday, 31 October
10:00-12:00 – Panel: Youth Leadership and Action in ESG, Climate, and Sustainability
14:00-15:30 – Panel: Circular Construction through a New Material Lens
16:00-18:00 – Art Workshop: Traversing Between Us Slime Mould, Touch, and Chimeric Practice
18:00-19:00 – Exhibition Guided Tour
18:00-18:30 – Cabanon 2050 Guided Tour
19:00-20:30 – Panel: The Symbiosis of Silicon and Carbon Life Forms: Robots, Embodied Intelligence and Arts
Tianmuli (天目里), officially OōEli, is a 230,000-square-meter arts and commercial complex in Hangzhou’s Xihu District, sitting on the route between West Lake and the Xixi National Wetland Park. Designed by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop and opened in 2020, it’s built around 17 raw-concrete buildings arranged around a central plaza. The complex houses the By Art Matters contemporary art museum, offices, and an artist residency program, functioning as one of Hangzhou’s leading cultural and creative landmarks.
The Planetary Embassy China is our flagship initiative: a pop-up part cultural festival, part intellectual salon, part lively café, where we prototype what we call planetary diplomacy. We ask bold, practical questions like: What if a tree could join climate negotiations? What if rivers, glaciers, or forests had their own delegates? What if international agreements had to be approved not only by nations, but by the ecosystems they affect?
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