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Seoul (Republic of Korea), a UNESCO Creative City of Design since 2010, launched the call for the third edition of the Human City Design Award.
With the aim of building a more sustainable urban ecosystem and celebrating designers that use creative design to address complex urban environment problems, Seoul in cooperation with the Seoul Design Foundation launched the international Human City Design Award in 2019. This year, for its third edition, the Award aims to bring forth creative solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic.
From 1 September to 31...
Seoul (Republic of Korea), a UNESCO Creative City of Design since 2010, will organize the second edition of the Human City Design Award Ceremony and Conference on March 8, 2021.
Organized in cooperation with the Seoul Metropolitan Government and the Seoul Design Foundation, the competition provides designers a platform to design sustainable city ecosystems reflecting a harmonious relationship between humans and the environment. Using innovative visions and creative design, the competition further aims to tackle urban environmental issues as...
Seoul, a UNESCO Creative City of Design since 2010 has launched in collaboration with the Seoul Design Foundation, the 2nd edition of the ‘Human City Design Award’. The competition provides a platform to establish through design a sustainable city ecosystem for a harmonious relationship between human and the environment.
Since its self-declaration as the ‘Human City Design Seoul’ in 2018, the city of Seoul intends to serve as a window for communication towards building an urban ecosystem where human and nature coexist as well as a platform...
From 20 December 2019 to 3 January 2020, the entire wall of the Seoul Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) designed by architect Zaha Hadid became a venue for excitement. At nightfall, the curved silver wall, the signature of the DDP, showcased a combination of light, moving images and music. The Seoul Metropolitan Government and the Seoul Design Foundation announced that they launched the “Seoul Light” initiative devoted to showing media-facade with various content using the outer surface of the DDP building as a huge screen.
The theme of this...
Saint-Étienne and Seoul lead together the “Designing designers for tomorrow”, a one-year project building a common reflection platform of Design Higher Education and Research between the two Creative Cities of Design. More especially, it aims at sharing expertise and developing the international career of Design students and researchers.
In this context, a programme of exchanges, workshops, conferences, and common publications between Saint-Etienne Higher School of Art and Design ESADSE, and Seoul Kookmin University, put the...
The International Conference 2011 on “Sustainable Development Based on Creativity” is to be hosted by the City of Seoul on 16-17 November 2011. As the main highlight of this Conference the Creative Cities Network Mayors Roundtable meeting will take place. Since the Network’s creation in 2004, it is the first time leaders and decision makers of the member cities come together to reflect and take actions on the importance of creative solutions for sustainable urban environment. Gathering UNESCO officials, creative city Mayors,...