RESILIENT CITIES THROUGH CULTUREA SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE

Friday 25th August 20172pmSeoul Art Space Mullae30 Mullae-dong 1 Ga, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul

UIA STUDENT SUMMER SCHOOL

Please join us for the UIA Summer School Symposium which will bring together practitioners, academics, artists, clients, educators and curators who specialize in the making of resilient cities and who will share their thoughts and experience on Friday 25th August 2017 at Mullea Dong Art Space. No tickets or registration needed - all welcome!

RESILIENT CITIES THROUGH CULTUREPROGRAM

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Architecture goes beyond the aesthetic; understanding a place in human/social terms and questioning the context, purpose and consequences of architectural intervention should always be the starting point. This symposium aims to inspire and equip the students of the Imaginations summer school with a better understanding of the opportunities and challenges facing the city of Seoul by engaging with professionals to spark the questions, ideas and dialogue that can lead towards a more responsive, sustainable and imaginative built environment.

By 2050 70% of the world’s population will live in cities, and they will live in cities their entire lives. One of our highest responsibilities as architects and planners today is to create sustainable solutions – providing for more people using fewer resources – for this rapidly growing urban population. Whereas global factors like climate change and knowledge-sharing may have no country borders, truly sustainable urban architectural solutions must recognise and be tailored to the specific climate and culture of a place and its people if they are to succeed.

The most successful sustainable urban areas work as social networks - as communities which benefit from collaborative effort and a shared sense of belonging. We are interested in Community, Culture and the Civic dimension of our cities. The intangible qualities of Place, Belonging and Identity. The concept of an engaged civil society shaping local affairs. And in how we as architects and planners can use these as guidance and tools to create good civic spaces with people at their centre as well as more resilient cities.

This symposium forms part of the student’s research, discussions and installation work during the summer school where they will participate and create in short cross-cultural group projects which nurture the local context and community, can be harvested by the city and which will benefit the wider and longer-term environment.

Alexandre OrionMultimedia Artist, Sao Paulo

Alexandre Orion is a multimedia artist. He started his work under the influence of urban culture and the world of graffiti in 1992. Soon he stood out from the movement he was part of and started to interact with the city in quite a unique way. In his own words, “a city is not a gallery; cities are themselves full of meanings”. It is precisely these meanings, often subtle ones, that he works on by interacting with people passing by on the street to make them part of his artistic work, while researching techniques and exploring issues that a city will hide.Orion has held several solo exhibitions internationally. His works have been shown at venues such as Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Itaú Cultural, Centro Cultural da Caixa, and Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo in Brazil, Foundation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris, and Spencer Museum of Art.

Jiyoon Lee Director SUUM project, Seoul

Jiyoon Lee is an art historian, curator, and formal managing director of MMCA Seoul, National and Contemporary Art Museum during 2014-2016. Since 2003, she founded independent curating office in London and actively involved in an international contemporary art scene producing more than 50 contemporary art exhibitions, aiming to promote understanding between Europe and Asia in a global cultural context. While working at MMCA, she produced numerous high profile international exhibitions as well as corporate new site specific commission projects such as Hyundai Motor Commission, YAP architect program with MoMA, NY etc, making museum successfully launched in its first years.

Hyungmin Pai Historian, Critic and Curator, Seoul

Hyungmin Pai is an architectural historian, critic, and curator. Twice a Fulbright Scholar, he received his Ph.D. from the History, Theory, and Criticism program at MIT. He has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design and Washington University in St. Louis and is presently professor at the University of Seoul. He is author of Portfolio and the Diagram, Sensuous Plan: The Architecture of Seung H-Sang, and The Key Concepts of Korean Architecture. For the Venice Biennale, he was curator for the Korean Pavilion (2008, 2014), and a participant in the Common Pavilions project (2012). In 2014, the Korean Pavilion was awarded the Golden Lion for best national participation. He was Visiting Director of the Asia Culture Center (2014-15) and Chief Curator for the Gwangju Design Biennale (2010-11). He is Director of the inaugural Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism.

Robin Cole-Hamilton Director Imaginations, London

Consultant, Designer, Author, Social Entrepreneur, Filmmaker. Professional experience includes: Head of Design National Gallery London; Head of Public Services V&A; CEO Science Museum Trading Company; Director of The Association of Leading Visitor Attractions; Director of Global Communications British Council; Founder and Director Massar Project Syria; Non-Profit Trustee Vox Humanitatis, Damask Rose Trust, Imaginations Cross Cultures.

Sung Hong KimProfessor University of Seoul, Seoul

KIM Sung Hong is a professor of architecture and urbanism at the University of Seoul. Studied architecture at Georgia Tech, the University of California at Berkeley and Hanyang University in Seoul; Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Washington in 2006; Provost of Planning and Research Office, University of Seoul from 2007-2008; Organizer of the exhibition, “Megacity Network: Contemporary Korean Architecture” in Frankfurt, Berlin, Tallinn, Barcelona and Seoul from 2007-2010. Author of numerous research papers, essays and books about contemporary Korean architecture and urbanism, and currently a Chief Editor for SPACE Academia; Columnist for the Korea JoongAng Daily from 2011-2013; Curated “The FAR Game: Constraints Sparking Creativity,” for the Korean Pavilion, Venice Biennale in 2016.

Markus AppenzellerDirector MLA+, Amsterdam

Markus Appenzeller is a globally working architect and urban planner educated in Germany and the US. With his Rotterdam based practice MLA+, he focusses on strategic and tactical urban projects across the whole range of scales. Architecture designs particularly look at housing for a wide range of target groups - from the new migrant workers, across families to senior citizens. Next to his professional work, Markus heads the urbanism program at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture.

Peter MaxwellHead of Design London Legacy Development Corporation, LondonPeter is a chartered architect, town planner and urban designer. He has led the implementation of major building projects, programmes and best practice in the UK, Middle East and New Zealand. Peter has extensive client side experience within the private sector, local and central government. He is currently the Director of Design for the London Legacy Development Corporation, leading the architecture, masterplanning and public realm for the regeneration and development of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Peter is currently a design review panel member for High Speed Rail 2 and Design Council CABE and has provided expert advice for design policy and research projects for both UK and NZ government departments.

Anne Marie GalmstrupDirector Imaginations, London

Anne Marie established Imaginations Cross Cultures; a non-profit organisation to encourage greater cross cultural collaboration among students of architecture, alongside Galmstrup Ltd.; her London based design studio focusing on cultural and community projects, back in 2015 after being an equity partner at Henning Larsen Architects. She is a Bartlett graduate, registered architect at the Danish Architect Association, taught the M.Arch studio at ITÜ and has designed museums and residential masterplans in Europe and the Middle East for the last 15 years.

Jae Uk ChongProfessor Dankok University

Jae Uk Chong, educated at the University of California, Berkeley and Harvard University GSD, is a registered architect in Massachusetts. His extensive portfolio includes projects in USA, Korea, and Japan and selected works published in Progressive Architecture Magazine. Currently, he is a Professor of Architecture at Dankook University in Seoul and serves as Chairman of the Student and Young Architect Committee of UIA 2017 Seoul Congress.

Hae-Won ShinPrincipal Lokaldesign, Seoul

John LinDirector Rural Urban Framework, Hong KongIn 2005 the Chinese government announced its plan to urbanize half of the remaining 700 million rural citizens by 2030. At the same time, Joshua Bolchover and John Lin set up Rural Urban Framework (RUF), a research and design collaborative based at The University of Hong Kong. Conducted as a non-profit organization providing design services to charities and NGOs working in China, RUF has built over 15 projects in diverse villages throughout China and Mongolia. The projects include schools, community centers, hospitals, village houses, bridges, and incremental planning strategies. As a result of this active engagement, RUF has been able to research the links between social, economic, political processes and the physical transformation of each village.

Jaewoo ParkPrincipal Haeahn Architects, Seoul

Jaewoo Park majored in Architecture at Kyungnam University, worked at Mooyoung Architecture, Shinhan Architecture, DA Architecture, since 1995, and is currently working as a Principal at HAEAHN Architecture. He is in charge of turnkey and design competition projects of residential apartments. He performed in multiple overseas projects and experienced winning in numerous apartment building competitions like public designing, private enterprise, reconstruction, redevelopment, and etc. He plays a leading role in developing the housing culture by challenging and making an effort in suggesting measures reflecting new trends and new dwelling culture, and securing maximum publicness in accordance with the characteristics of each project.

Sabine StorpBartlett, UCL, London

Sabine Storp is the Director of Short courses at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL London. Sabine has been working in education since 2000. She became the Deputy Head of School, at the Cass London Met in 2006 and decided start summer programmes and teaching at the Bartlett in 2013.Sabine Storp and Patrick Weber established Storpweber architecture developing it into an award winning practice. Currently they work on a new living lab within the Bartlett, focusing on the design issues of modern housing under the bartlett-living-laboratory.tumblr.com. Since 2013 they teach on housing and living design issues within the Ba and the Master programme.

RESILIENT CITIES THROUGH CULTURESESSIONS

The city of Seoul accommodates 50% of South Korea’s population with over 25 million residents in the Seoul Greater Metropolitan area and 10 million in the city centre. Most megacities today are struggling to provide sufficient space for their growing number of residents. A decade ago this was Seoul’s situation; today the population of Seoul is declining. Despite being one of the largest cities in the world, to a visitor the city centre now seems spacious and vast, since the massive growth has happened predominantly in the surrounding suburbs. Does this mean that one of Seoul’s most significant challenges is how to create a thriving diverse and dispersed city with a declining population or a shifting pattern to its density? Will the city, or should the city intervene to rebalance and re-invent itself? Economically, politically, socially and technologically, what are the strategic drivers of a resilient, sustainable, successful Seoul, from local, national and global perspectives?

14.00SESSION A : CITY LEVELPLANNING FOR A DECLINING(AND AGING) POPULATION

Cities, especially those which have grown as quickly as Seoul has over the last 50 years, must rapidly adapt and expand their infrastructure. The city of Soul has seen its population grown ten-fold over that period to the current total of 25 million people in the Greater Metropolitan area. This extremely rapid growth, especially in the 1990s and in the suburban areas, also meant that infrastructure developed fast, often with a premium on speed of construction over long-term durability and integration. Maintenance of this infrastructure, both urban and building is a major challenge for the city today. This encompasses everything from upgrading sanitation to securing fast-track building projects against collapse to reinventing outdated commercial complexes or industrial areas to adapt from an industrial to a knowledge economy. However, some of these neighbourhoods or building complexes now have a life and presence of their own and represent part of an important era in the history of Seoul and therefore perhaps also part of the cultural identity of the city. Are they assets to cherish, retain and repurpose? Do they have cultural value and meaning? Or can they be swept aside in the next phase of change and renewal?

The city of Seoul has seen a significant rise in building cultural institutions especially during the recent decade. Notably the Dongdaemun Design Plaza and the Asia Culture Center, but there has also been an increase in hosting international creative Biennales and there is a growing underground art scene. What is the planned purpose of investing in public cultural institutions and events? What do they contribute to the city’s sense of itself? Cultural institutions are sometimes located and used to influence an urban area’s character, and to reflect back to local residents a sense of their shared identity and place in history. Cultural institutions as moderated public spaces can also be designed to provide people with a different form of engagement with each other in the public realm. Cultural institutions can stimulate and represent local communities. What is the role of cultural and public institutions in our cities? Are they intrinsic to nurturing a healthy and engaged civil society? How does contemporary art of all forms shape our perception of a place and its people?

15.00SESSION B : NEIGHBOURHOOD LEVELINFRASTRUCTURE AND IDENTITY

16.00SESSION C : COMMUNITY LEVELCULTURAL INSTITUTIONS AND CIVIL SOCIETY

17.00CLOSING SESSION ALL SPEAKERS

A collective session with all speakers drawing parallels across the talks throughout the afternoon.

RESILIENT CITIES THROUGH CULTURESPEAKERS

Sung Hong KimProfessor University of Seoul, Seoul

Markus AppenzellerManaging Director MLA+, Amsterdam

Peter MaxwellDirector of Design London LegacyDevelopment Corporation, London

Moderator: Anne Marie GalmstrupImaginations Cross Cultures, London

Hae-Won ShinPrincipal Lokaldesign, Seoul

John LinDirector Rural Urban Framework, Hong Kong

Jaewoo ParkPrincipal Haeahn Architects, Seoul

Moderator: Sabine StorpBartlett, UCL, London

Alexandre OrionMultimedia Artist, Sao Paulo

Jiyoon LeeDirector SUUM project, Seoul

Hyungmin PaiHistorian, Critic and Curator, Seoul

Moderator: Robin Cole-Hamilton Imaginations Cross Cultures, London

Closing Remarks: Jae Uk ChongProfessor Dankook University 

Moderator: Robin Cole-Hamilton Imaginations Cross Cultures, London

Hae-Won Shin is the principal of lokaldesign in Seoul, and works in partnership with Publica in London to advance innovative strategies for city design. She is currently working on a project for the City of Seoul to create a multi-phased research framework for the future vision of the city.  Hae-Won has been an Assistant Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Korea National University of Arts. She has exhibited at The Cass in 2015, the 2006 Venice Biennale of Architecture, the Aedes Gallery Berlin, the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, and RMIT University in Melbourne. In 2013, Hae-Won was awarded the Young Architect Award and Public design Award in Korea.