In the summer of 2011, four Columbia GSAPP students traveled to Chengdu and Xi'an to gather documentation of industrial restructuring and urban redevelopment, in collaboration with teams from Southwest Jiaotong University and the Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology.

This summer's China Megacities Lab workshops have kicked off in Beijing at Studio-X. One workshop is considering the role of public space in Dawangjing district in Beijing, and is in collaboration with CAFA students and faculty, Urbanus, and a number of other professionals and scholars. The second workshop is focusing on the future of the museum in China, and is in collaboration with Studio Pei-Zhu. The workshops will continue through July.

The 2013 China Megacities Lab Summer Workshops kick off in Beijing. The wokshops will run from July 24 - August 3, 2013. The Future of the Museum in China Workshop in collaboration with Studio Pei-Zhu will continue to develop research conducted over the past year on the state of the museum building boom in China. Reframe: Public Spaces for New Gonghua City is a joint workshop with Central Academy of Fine Arts and Urbanus that will focus on defining criteria for public space in a new urban development northwest of Beijing.

Future of the Museum in China - Research Team with Artist/Activist Ai Weiwei