City As Verb Wednesday Seminars

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City as Verb Wednesday Seminars Overview
» Youtube live stream: www.youtube.com/seoulbiennale/live
» More info: Seoul Hall of Architecture & Urbanism

The ‘City as Verb’ seminars hosted by the City of Seoul will be an important bridge between the 2019 Seoul Biennale Cities Exhibition and its upcoming continuation in 2021. In close partnership with the French, Netherlands, and Swiss embassies, this four-part series of public presentations will launch on 15 July and continue every Wednesday for one month. The purpose of the events is twofold: First to expand the important dialogue between Seoul and its global partner cities on issues of urbanism and citizen engagement, and secondly to reach a wider audience of Korean government officials, citizens, and community stakeholders. Global experts will join virtually to share insight on how their city is creatively addressing emerging urban issues. Afterwards, they will engage a panel of local experts to explore commonalities and contrasts. The events will be held in English with simultaneous translation into Korean.

15 July, 5pm (Seoul Time) | Paris, France
» Youtube [English] live stream https://youtu.be/kiIUiZneRZw
» Youtube [Korean] live stream https://youtu.be/dDzjmDwoDnY

Reinventing Paris, Co-building the City
Lecture by: Alexandre Labasse | director, Pavillon de l’Arsenal

The “Reinventing Paris” competition rewarded 22 innovative urban and architectural projects in Greater Paris, which have in common the integration of hybrid buildings and green spaces. These winning projects represent many models of the city of the future in terms of architectural design, new attitudes about programming, environmental innovation, and co-construction. The projects were presented as part of the “Reinventing Paris” exhibition at the Pavillon de l’Arsenal. Inherent to its conception, “Reinventing Paris” calls for projects that integrate two ecosystems which correspond to two different temporalities: On the one hand, town planning and construction, and on the other hand, everyday life and the needs of users. Each project is a meeting point between these two ecosystems and carries an innovative vision of the city: new ways of living and working, the advent of the circular economy, the digital revolution, new modes of construction… “Reinvent Paris” demonstrates the capital’s capacity for transformation, innovation and the avant-garde.

Co-urbanism : 15 Collaborative Fabrications of the City
Lectures by: Kelly Ung and Laure Gaye | directors, Atelier Appoches !, co-curators, Co-Urbanism

Public spaces co-conception and management, ephemeral equipment support of social activation, foreign universities, non-programmed spaces, co-programming tools, program map, and open conceptions: Our lecture will review some of the tools and approaches analyzed in the exhibition, Co-Urbanism, 21 Collaborative Practices of the City.’ The various approaches demonstrate how the city’s services and functions are co-programmed through collective thinking creating site-specific projects that recognize Paris as a dynamic social and ecological ecosystem.

Roundtable Discussants: Taehyung Kim (director, Seoul City Urban Space Improvement Bureau); Prof. Choon Choi (2021 Seoul Biennale co-curator with Dominique Perrault); Prof. Rafael Luna (2019 Seoul Biennale co-curator), Paco Bunnik (Chief City Planner of Amsterdam), Prof. Suk Yeon Yoo (Future Seoul architect); Prof. John Hong (curator, City as Verb)