During the Shanghai World Expo 2010 you can visit the Adaptation: Designing the Future City exhibition.

The exhibition in the Dutch Culture Centre includes 3rd I, a miniature utopian city with interactive robots will be exhibited in large cubes, and Genetic City, a 46-metre long video installation resulting from an experimental collaboration between ten well known architects that showcases design proposals for green cities of the future. The exhibition opens on 14 August.

3rd I (Third Eye), an installation by the V2_ Institute for Unstable Media, consists of maquettes of imaginary buildings and remote-controlled robots fitted with cameras that explore the cityscape. These 'third eyes' are operated by visitors to the exhibition in Shanghai, by visitors in Rotterdam, where the installation can be viewed virtually in the MK Gallery, and by virtual visitors to the 3rd I website. The installation also includes video portraits of the teams by filmmaker Maartje Nevejan of Couscous Global. 3rd I is an initiative of Graham and Christina Smith from CyberCity Ruhr, realised in collaboration with V2_ and Shanghai eARTS.

THE GENETIC CITY introduces a radical response to the breakneck urbanisation in China. The organic growth of a new and sustainable city (Caofeidian) from 2010 to 2040 is simulated in an ongoing and shared design process: evolutionary planning as a means to combat extremely rigid and short-lived urban development. For this, the Dynamic City Foundation asked ten progressive Dutch and Chinese architecture firms to conceive a sustainable development plan, which they designed in relay, successively modifying previous efforts. Genetic City is an impressive panoramic video installation with contributions by Urbanus, MAD, Rocksteady Design, Powerhouse Company, MVRDV, BAU, Tsinghua School of Architecture, Urban China, ZUS en MARS-1.