은평역사한옥박물관

A wonderful visit to an interesting museum in northern Seoul in the foothills of Bukhansan.  What brought me there was, of course, 재개발--And there's an interesting narrative on that at the museum.  Great tour--especially of 은평's history:

Co-Living in Seoul

I caught the "Co-Living Scenarios" (협력적 주거 공동체) exhibit at the Seoul Museum of Art (SEMA).  All about the re-invention of 골목공동체 for the post-재개발 age.

Also--perhaps because this was a competition between architects, there was a impressive, little library appended to the exhibit.  I copied down some titles for later:

1. 박인석.  아파트 한국 사회.
2. 정민우.  자기만의 방: 고시원으로 보는 청년 세대와 주거의 사회학.
3. 오마이 뉴스 특별취래팀.  마을의 귀환: 대안적 삶을 꿈꾸는 도시공동체 현장에게다.
4. 나는 튀는 도시보다 참한 도시가 좋다: 정석 교수의 도시설계 이야기.
5. 세 도시 이야기.
6. 우리, 마을 만들기.  "12인의 전문가가 국내사례를 총해 살펴본 마을 믄들기의 현황과 전망!  우리의 마을 만들기 어떻게 할까?"

More Photos From the 한 도시 이야기 Exhibit

Thanks, 이재용!

서울역사박물관--'응답하라 서울 1994년'

A new exhibit at the museum highlights an ethnographic project undertaken in 1994, "Seoul, One Day, Time Capsule," with some irresistible parallels to other projects, including England's famous May the Twelfth report (1937) from Jenning's Mass Observation movement, the crowdsourced effort to document everyday life and thought in England on the day of King George VI's coronation.  

My trip to the "마을미디어 축제" at the 아리랑시네미디어센터 in 성북구, near 성신여 대.   First, the area has been subject to the same, frightening re-development strategies that have plagued other neighborhoods in Seoul:

But the idea is to create a network of local, community-based media--newspapers, film, radio broadcasts and photography.  It's an eloquent argument against  재개발, even when there's no explicit critique:

Seoul Station (서울역) Before the Chusok Holiday

Here's a quick look at tweets that mention Seoul Station on the day before the 2014 Chusok holiday.  Lots of people are traveling, but there are also political protests going on around the plight of the families of the Sewol ship sinking.  The massive blue cluster represents tweets from those activists and politicians who wanted to remind people about the cause before they traveled to their hometowns for the holiday. 

광장의 이야기--Plaza Stories

A quick social graph on NodeXL using 'plaza' as a search term.  For the most part, these tweets focus on continued protests from activists organizing around the Sewol disaster. 

On the other hand, a series of tweets around the weekend "Seoul Night of Culture," an open festival of events and gallery showings that spread all over downtown Seoul, from Seodaemun to Dongdaemun.  

Well--we can see which one is larger, and even which is more connected.  But both of them overlap in space at the same time.