Seoul Biennale International Studios Symposium, 5 Sept


Please join us for ‘Active Archive,’ the culminating symposium for the Seoul Biennale International Studios.

Where: DDP (Dongdaemun Design Plaza) Academy Hall, D281, Eulji-ro, Jung-gu, Seoul
When: September 5th, Tuesday 10am
The event is free and open to the public

Archiving typically entails the storage of ideas and objects, fixing them to a historical timeframe. The ‘Active Archive’ of the Seoul Biennale International Studios attempts to rethink this definition: Professors from 17 global institutions will convene to discuss the imminent future embedded in the design research of their academic studios. The work is opened up as a platform for continuous discourse, not just for issues in Korea, but for other metropolitan regions faced with the challenge of defining a new form of commons.

Keynote Speakers:
Dominique Perrault (Director, SubLab), Alejandro Zaera-Polo (Co-director, Seoul Biennale), Young Joon Kim (City Architect of Seoul)

Moderators:
Pippo Ciorra (Senior Curator, MAXXI), Marc Brossa (UoS), Jeffrey Nesbit (GSD), John Hong (SNU)

Participants:
Jorge Alamazan (Keio), Juan Fernandez Andrino (Epfl), Sangyong Cho (GSD), Sanki Choe (UoS), Peter Ferretto (CUHK), Dongsei Kim (UoM), Simon Kim (Upenn), Yoonhie Lee (Ewha), Erik L’Heureux (NUS/WashU), Rafael Luna (RISD), Richard Nguyen (Epfl), Hyungmin Pai (UoS), So Young Park (KU), Ignacio Ferrer Rizzo Rizzo (Epfl), Thorsten Schuetze (SKKU), Marc Simmons (MIT/GT), Chongkul Yi (KU), Dongwooo Yim (Hongik), Hangman Zo (SNU)