Seoul Diplomacy

Seoul, South Korea

Seoul Diplomacy
SEMINAR 3
SEOUL_South Korea
29 June – 03 July 2020 (Canceled_New Dates TBC)
Seoul Diplomacy is the third symposium/workshop of a larger research project entitled
Design Diplomacy: The Transmission of Autochthonous Practices & Customs.
Citizen Participation Pedagogy
Seminar lectures will take place in the Gallery Space MIUM in Seoul. Invited by its owner, the seminar will be the opening of this new art gallery and will present its research to a wider audience.

 

To prepare the Seminar, Publication was released in the Journal of Environmental Studies
Citizen Participation Pedagogy
September  2020
Flagship of the four Asian dragons that are shaking up the world’s geopolitics of the 21st century, South Korea has benefited but also suffered from the consequences of an aggressive and dazzling Modernity. With an exuberant economic growth, the social and environmental capital of Korea  was so brutally mutated that a peculiar expertise emerged from its resilience need: Community Design. Korean social engineering dynamics is nowadays one of the most stimulating phenomena observed in Asia, reflecting the culture but also the suffering of autochthonous (“native to the place where found”) communities disorientated by a globalized and speculative economy and stripped of  their relations to the land, culture and time.
Although extremely active, the numbers of stakeholders in the revitalization of communities and the management of their resilience are exploding without however being able to generate overviews that would facilitate cohesion and efficiency. Accordingly, this research aims to draft an inventory of the Community Design pedagogies which guide the Design Diplomacy Seminar in Seoul.
Seminar participants will visit various Seoul locations where the revitalization and management of communities are developed, to meet Community Designers, Urban Sociologists, Landscape Architects & Architects Civil Society Activists, and other various stakehodlers.
Maeul Mandelgi Diplomacy is the third Design Diplomacy Seminar which aims to: provide an overview of current design resilience practices involved with issues of community revitalisation; develop critical tools and methodologies, such as Social Ecology Analysis, Consensus Building and Just Design Translation,  which engage in this arena,; provide a systematic compendium of community design and village regeneration case studies of these phenomena directed toward  the new generation of landscape architects / planners / environmental designers who are concerned with the ethical behaviours between humans and non-humans.
The creation of a film will allow the team to be closer to their interlocutors’ milieu and to delve into the complexity of the environmental problematics. Embracing  the complexities, nuances and densities of exogenous speech, the moving image will allow us to better decrypt the Intangible and the unsaid components. Understood as a Design Research Tool, drawing on the seminar and site visit recordings, this ‘movie’ will enable A. Mannisi and C. Anderson to better elaborate a theoretical compendium of Citizen Participation Pedagogy.
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