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[ 3RD Seou1l Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2021 ]

PERIOD 2021 Sep 16 (Thu) - Nov 31 (Sun)
VENUE Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP), Seoul Hall of Urbanism & Architecture, Sewoon Plaza
DIRECTOR Dominique Perrault
THEME CROSSROADS, Building the resilient city
CURATORS Choon Woong Choi, Marc Brossa, FHHH Friends, BARE
WEBSITE https://seoulbiennale.org
※ The ticket is valid for one entrance to the DDP and other venues like Seoul Hall of Urbanism & Architecture and Sewoon Plaza are free entry. Reservations are necessary, and should be made in advance at Seoul Public Reservation System(yeyak.seoul.go.kr). On site is opne on a first-come, first-served basis only for the remaining.


[ 3RD Seou1l Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2021 - Sewoon Plaza Live Projects ] * free for entry
Exhibition Live Projects 《Suspicious Footprints》
Hours 10:00 – 18:00 daily (Admission closes at 17:00)
Closed every Monday (except Chuseok Holiday)
Reservation The main pavilion requires reservation by one-hour time slots. (Other installations do not require reservation and can be viewed at any time.)

Sewoon Plaza which located along the axis connecting the DDP and Seoul Hour Is the sie, that carry history of Seoul for urban transformation, represent urban development of the past and present.

To free ourselves from the macrostructures of historical discourse, the Live Projects Exhibition, as part of the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2021, focuses on the private and intimate stories of the city under the title of “Suspicious Footprints.” Just like children stepping on a manhole cover, tapping on a wall with a stick, and drawing their own maps with their own rules and signs, Suspicious Footprints aims to provide clues of the individual city that we seek—a city that is free from the conventional and conflictual language. Five writers were invited to compose narratives of their private experience of the city, using ‘scale’ as the keyword. Is it possible to invent a personal scale beyond the universal one(meter, kilometer, hour, minute, second, etc.)? What scale can we use to measure our gratitude, despair, loneliness, and happiness we feel living in the city? Giving shape to those intimate narratives composed by the writers, five teams of architects build physical sites that allow the audience to have a comprehensive experience with an extended range of empathy. Five structures set up in the area of Sewoon Plaza and Cheonggyecheon enable them to look in and imagine the private city.

Curator of Live Projects, Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2021 - FHHH Friends (Seung Jae Han, Yang Kyu Han, Hanjin Yoon)