Join editors Virginia Lui and Aki Lee for the launch of the latest *Social Design *, tracing the quiet urgencies and everyday negotiations of practitioners working within critical spatial practices that shape public space across China. An interactive installation unfolds a toolkit of urban tactics for practitioners navigating the complexities of top-down urban redevelopments, offering guidance for how they could strengthen urban spaces as democratic arenas for dialogue, negotiation, and collective action. Take part in the Game of Collective Suffering, a role-play game where visitors are invited to embody the personas shaping everyday Chinese urban life and reflect on collective struggles, forms of urban agency, and the ways communities reclaim spaces through everyday practices.

The Social Design Reader is a series by the department Social Design — Arts as Urban Innovation at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. In cooperation with Social Design and Publications/Angewandte.