Fence Society

About The Entry

Fence Society interrogates spatial contradictions within Inner Mongolia's pastoral landscape, where sedentary territorial frameworks have disrupted nomadic ecological stewardship. The 1984 Livestock and Grassland Double Contract Household Responsibility System transformed fluid grazing territories into commodified parcels—creating a "fence economy" that enables extractive capitalism while constraining traditional practices.

The project operates through three critical interventions that challenge existing spatial paradigms: policy reformation that reconceptualizes land tenure beyond private ownership models; temporal restructuring that reintroduces cyclical occupation patterns; and architectural frameworks that support transient collective inhabitation. Through these intersecting strategies, the proposal seeks to dissolve the territorial fixity that has rendered grasslands vulnerable to industrial extraction and ecological exhaustion.

Establishing rotational collective grazing sites across Hulunbuir Steppe creates alternative spatial practices resisting pastoral commodification while enabling ecological regeneration through nomadic knowledge systems. This architectural proposition emerges as critical infrastructure for spatial reconfiguration—transforming degraded landscapes into active sites of restoration and cultural reclamation, challenging the hegemonic fence society.