上海外滩美术馆邀请曼谷建筑事务所all(zone)策划第二届外滩建筑节（RAM assembles）。今年，这场探讨建筑思考的双年盛会以“上海野餐”为题。我们以“野餐”这一开放、临时、灵活而集体性的形式作为隐喻，希望这一届的公共项目可以展开新的对话——关于如何建设、如何共居、以及如何适应与转化，并通过艺术家共创工作坊、表演和建筑师讲座等多样形式的活动，构建一个新的让人们可以倾听和交流的平台。这些激发跨界协作、创意实验与社区参与的项目活动在洛克·外滩源街区内全日段开展，各具焦点。
县城——“洄游的，悬浮的”关注县城空间与青年社群的关系，探索青年如何在零散、悬置的县城环境中通过在地实践重建公共性。县城如同在建的楼宇，搭着手脚架，都市、乡土、历史与偶然碎片不断碰撞、融合、平衡，却难以凝固成整体。雷蒙·威廉斯在《乡村与城市》中指出，城市与乡村并非“作为单数的存在”，二者之间存在“多样中介和新形式的社会组织”，而所谓的“空间”，本质上是意识形态与权力关系的建构产物——县城的悬浮与未定正体现了这种中介性与建构性。县城青年既不同于城市青年，也不同于乡村青年，他们生活在城乡交界，穿行于二者之间，在都市文化与乡土经验的双重实践中塑造身份，并在迁徙与返流的洄游路径中寻找落脚点。阈限理论指出，这种介于既有秩序与新秩序之间的模糊状态，是身份形成与社会实践同时面临不确定性的体现。卡夫卡《城堡》中的K在无法进入的城堡前回望家乡教堂尖塔，这一意象映照出青年在悬浮空间中的困境——既能感知秩序与潜力，也受结构限制所困。本项目试图通过田野观察、空间实践与青年参与，探索县城青年在城市小空间中形成社群、激活公共性的路径，并尝试提出在地实践策略。
【分享与讨论】街猫：县城里的御宅文化调研
2025年9月18日，12:00-13:00
“谷子经济”在近些年来逐渐崭露头角。御宅文化在国内的三四线城市乃至于小县城也逐渐遍地开花。然而就像中世纪天主教会一般，相比于和“异教徒”的矛盾，御宅族内部的“异端”冲突常常更甚。新御宅族，特别是县城里的新御宅族和传统的老御宅族几乎变成了两个完全不同的存在。从福建小县城而来的街猫，他是一位工作和生活于多个大城市，最终回到老家漳浦县城的三十岁传统阿宅。他想尽可能的，用相对客观的视角来讲述“御宅”这一亚文化在国内的发展，以及他所见所闻的县城御宅生活，探究御宅族的精神状态与产生此类精神状态的成因。
【工作坊】住所无定：县城青年空间分享及家乡公共生活地图手工书工作坊
2025年9月18日，13:00-15:00
Zine，来自英文magazine，意指一种由私人或团体制作的小小读物，它简单、自由，可以涵盖任何主题，任何叙事。这次的工作坊灵感来自「住所无定」的伙伴狗毛创作的一本小zine——用文字、图像与手工，讲述奶奶在台州老家做工、生活的故事。一张街道照片、一个公共空间、一段真实的故事，就能把个人的片段拼贴成一本关于家乡的“公共生活地图”。正如位于湖南西北部的慈利县「住所无定」，试图将县城经验与更多地方的想象连接起来，成为新的青年空间。我们希望由此展开讨论：如果回到你的家乡，它的公共生活会是什么样子？
【分享与讨论】Hotbox热盒子：后疫情时代返县创业——以“家”为出发点的咖啡馆
2025年9月19日，16:00-17:00
“HotBox热盒子”在2023年诞生于福建诏安县，一个不起眼的边陲小城。空间并不大，只有三十平，灵感来源于国蛋的一首歌曲，HotBox是在描述一个舒适的密闭环境，像是下了班后卸下伪装独自坐在车里听着自己喜欢的音乐一样。Par与以牙在后疫情时代背景下双双离职，回到县城，以家为出发点成立了这个咖啡商店。这一次他们与大家聊一聊在后时代县城创业感受与观察。
【工作坊】jeje：重新编织——闽南渔村女性叙事与劳作&渔网袋编织工作坊
2025年9月19日，17:00-19:00
我们基于社会构造出来的海，总是充满浪漫想象。福建漳州虽然是闽南海岸线最长的城市，但除了个别几个旅游景点之外，海几乎是用来于养殖，交换生计。在这里，大海是牡蛎柔软的肉，生活是牡蛎赤贫的壳。生长于漳州漳浦县渔村家庭的jeje，小时候会跟在村里妇女后面，学习编织牡蛎专用渔网袋、串牡蛎壳等劳作赚取零花钱。 本次工作坊从jeje的家乡漳浦霞美镇，以渔村生活经验出发，与大家分享她在渔村的所见所闻：关于海鲜养殖、也关于女性劳作，并且与大家一起动手制作酒袋，某种程度上酒也是有时髦和社交属性，很适合上海。参与者现场选择自己喜欢的配色进行编织，jeje先做好了开头比较复杂的部分，接着由参与者自行完成后续的编织。另外，jeje准备了一瓶自然酒作为成品的拍摄道具，欢迎工作者和参与者都喝一杯。
Bangkok-based architecture practice all(zone) directed and curated the second edition of RAM assembles—the Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai’s biennial festival of architectural thinking. This year’s edition, themed “Shanghai Picnic,” adopted the idea of a picnic as a grounded, open-ended, flexible, and collective framework to foster new conversations about how we build, how we live, and how we adapt. Through artist-led co-creation workshops, performances, and public talks, the festival offered a space for coming together—for listening, exchanging, and building new ways of being in common. Over two weeks, these events unfolded across the ROCKBUND neighborhood, encouraging collaboration, experimentation, and community engagement.
County Town: Suspending and Flowing Back explores the relationship between county-town spaces and youth communities, asking how young people rebuild publicness through local practice in fragmented, suspended environments. County towns resemble unfinished buildings urbanity, rurality, history, and chance collide and interweave, yet resist forming coherent wholes. As Raymond Williams observed in The Country and the City, city and countryside are not singular entities but connected by "multiple mediations and new forms of social organization," with "space" itself a construct of ideology and power. The suspension of county towns exemplifies this intermediary nature. County-town youth are neither fully urban nor rural; living between both, they move between urban culture and local experience, shaping identities through each, and seeking anchorage through cycles of migration and return. Turner's liminality theory frames this in-between state as a moment of uncertainty in both identity and practice. In Kafka's The Castle, K—unable to enter the castle—looks back at his hometown church spire, a metaphor for youth in suspended spaces: sensing order and potential but constrained by structures. Through fieldwork, spatial practice, and youth participation, this project examines how small urban spaces can host communities and public life, and seeks grounded strategies for in-situ practice.
[Talking & Discussion] Street Cat: Otaku Culture in County Towns
2025.9.18, 12:00-13:00
The so-called "merch economy" has gradually emerged in recent years. Otaku culture has also been blossoming across China’s third- and fourth-tier cities, and even in small county towns. Yet, much like the medieval Catholic Church, the conflicts within the otaku community often outweigh those with "outsiders." The new generation of otaku—especially those in county towns—has almost become a completely different existence compared to the traditional "old-school" otaku. Street Cat, who comes from a small county in Fujian, is a thirty-year-old traditional otaku who has worked and lived in multiple big cities before returning to his hometown, Zhangpu County. He hopes to narrate the development of this subculture in China from as objective a perspective as possible, and to share what he has seen and experienced about otaku life in county towns. He also explored the mental states of otaku and the causes behind these psychological conditions.
[Workshop] ZHUSUOWUDING: County Youth Spaces & Hometown Public Life Map Zine Workshop
2025.9.18, 13:00-15:00
Zine, from the word magazine, refers to a small self-published booklet that is simple, free-form, and open to any theme or narrative. The inspiration for this workshop comes from a zine created by Goumao, a member of “ZHUSUOWUDING”, which tells the story of their grandmother’s work and life in their hometown of Taizhou through text, images, and handmade elements. A single street photo, a public space, or a true story can piece together fragments of the personal into a “public life map” of one’s hometown. Similarly, ZHUSUOWUDING in Cili County, Northwestern Hunan, seeks to connect county-town experiences with broader imaginations, becoming a new kind of youth space. We invited participants to discuss: if you return to your hometown, what might its public life look like?
[Talking & Discussion] Hotbox: County-town Entrepreneurship in the Post-Pandemic Era—A Cafe Starting from “Home”
2025.9.19, 16:00-17:00
"Hotbox" was founded in 2023 in Zhao’an County, Fujian, a small, remote town. The space was modest, only about 30 square meters, and drew inspiration from a song by Soft Lipa. Hotbox describes a cosy, enclosed environment — like sitting in your car after work, shedding pretence, and listening to your favorite music. Against the backdrop of the post-pandemic era, Par and Yiya both left their jobs and returned to their county town, founding this café with home as their starting point. In this session, they shared their reflections and observations on county-town entrepreneurship in the post-pandemic era.
[Workshop] jeje: Re-weaving—Narratives of Women in Minnan Fishing Villages & Fishing Net Bag Workshop
2025.9.19, 17:00-19:00
The sea, as constructed in our social imagination, is often full of romance. Yet in Zhangzhou, Fujian — a city with the longest Minnan coastline—apart from a few tourist sites, the sea is mainly for aquaculture and livelihood. Here, the sea is the soft flesh of oysters, while life is the impoverished shell. Growing up in a fishing village family in Xiamei Town, Zhao’an County, jeje learned from village women how to weave oyster net bags and string oyster shells to earn pocket money.
This workshop started from jeje’s hometown experiences in Xiamei, shared stories of aquaculture and women’s labor, and invited participants to join in weaving wine bags. In a way, wine carries a fashionable and social quality that resonates with Shanghai. Participants chose their preferred colors for the weaving. To accommodate time, jeje prepared the more complex beginning parts in advance, and participants completed the rest. A bottle of natural wine also was provided — both as a prop for documenting the finished works and as a drink to be shared among the staff and participants.
