2008上海双年展,首次以人为对象和主题,揭示城市迅捷变化中人群的多元身份,通过外乡人/城里人空间迁徙的观点,移民/市民身份转换的观念,过客/主人家园融入的观感这三个层面锲人城市与人的命题,突出以人为本的根本关怀,展示今日国际大都市中新移民与文化融入的新趋势,探索城市化的丰富内涵;在与城市化相应的经济转型、社会转型和文化转型的宏大背景下,思考城市是否能让生活更美好,城市如何让生活更美好。 2008 Shanghai Biennale, for the first time using people as the subject and theme, reveals the multi-faceted identity of the rapidly changing urban population through the perspective of migrant / urban migrants, the concept of immigrant / citizenship transition, the perception of passing in / passing home These three aspects of the urban and human dimensions, highlighting the fundamental concern of people-oriented, showing the new trends in today’s international metropolis of immigrants and cultural integration, to explore the rich connotation of urbanization; in the economic transformation and the corresponding urbanization, society Transformation and cultural transformation under the grand background, think about whether the city can make life better, how the city makes life better.