A Tale of Two Cities

This edition of the studio-as-book comprises a collection of writings and an edited selection of undergraduate design work from the Joint International Design (JID) Studio - an experimental 3rd year programme, based at the University of Westminster, and taught in conjunction with the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in China. Against the global tide of geopolitical balkanisation, the JID Studio was created as a platform for dialogue and the exchange of ideas. In its pursuit of a global perspective to tackle increasingly shared urban challenges, the JID Studio uses Beijing and London as testbeds, seeking a new poetics of habitation and new ways of living together in the city.