The project proposed by the curators Soik Jung and Kyong Park questions what life will be like when the world population reaches its peak. A biocultural revolution is necessary to put an end to the environmental crises and the creation of three communities that achieve a more empathetic, reflective and restricted life in a new ecosphere is proposed as a solution.
The proposal begins with the creation of three different teams made up of architects and community leaders. Each one of them develops a possible regeneration of South Korea's assets by investigating the process of urbanization, modernization and westernization of the Korean world.
Each of the three projects is motivated to stop the deterioration of urbanism due to capitalist inequality and environmental crises. Climate problems are confronted based on hypothetical cases that raise awareness among the population.
2086 - Together how? Image courtesy of SoA.
The proposal begins with the creation of three different teams made up of architects and community leaders. Each one of them develops a possible regeneration of South Korea's assets by investigating the process of urbanization, modernization and westernization of the Korean world.
Each of the three projects is motivated to stop the deterioration of urbanism due to capitalist inequality and environmental crises. Climate problems are confronted based on hypothetical cases that raise awareness among the population.
2086 - Together how? Image courtesy of SoA.
“2086” begins with the research and design collaboration of three teams, each composed of architects and community leaders, at three different regeneration projects currently active in South Korea. Located in a global city, a small city, and a village, together they serve to investigate the process of urbanization, modernization, and Westernization of Korean urban and rural history. Employing real activities at real locations, the project will then take them towards 2086 by engaging in set dialectics that have been determinant factors in our biocultural evolution. They are: Centers (Urban)—Peripheries (Rural); Global (Interdependence)—Local (Self-Sufficient); Individualism (Capitalism)—Communalism (Socialism); Democracy—Autocracy; Artificial (Anthropocentrism)/Natural (Biocentrism); Spiritualism (Beliefs / Myths)—Materialism (Commodities / Consumptions).
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2086 - Together how? Image courtesy of Arts Council Korea.
