
Imminent Commons: Live from Seoul
Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2017
ActarD Inc (Publisher)
Published on 19. November 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
260 pages
978-1-945150-92-0 (ISBN)
Description
The fourth book from the Seoul Biennale 2017 explores the sites, exhibition installations, and diverse array of programs that were realized during the Seoul BiennaleImminent Commons: Live from Seoul is Centered on the Live Projects sections (Production City, Urban Foodshed, Walking the Commons) and the Public Programs, the book highlights Seoul's complex urban fabric as a theatre on which the Seoul Biennale was played out. It is a book that focuses less on individual installations and more on the biennale as a specific set of places. It shows how much the character of theses places is an integral part of the Biennale's cosmopolitan, transnational gaze.
It shows the Seoul Biennale as a unique curatorial engagement into the city.The book displays and interprets the Seoul Biennale as a place making mechanism within the city of Seoul.It presents how cities in today's world are jointly formed through the participation of stakeholders of diverse backgrounds, knowledge and life experiences.
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Edition
English
Language
English
Place of publication
Spain
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
618 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-945150-92-0 (9781945150920)
Schweitzer Classification