Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism

COLLECTIVE CITY Cities are contested territories, by their very nature spaces of negotiation, multiple and complex subjects, divergent rights, values, claims and conditions. To understand the city one needs to recognize and frame it as a physical and political construct, complicit in the right to housing, access to natural and social resources, transportation, political freedoms and justice, simultaneously pressured by the challenges of internal and global migration, climate change and increasing inequity. This year the Seoul Biennale of Architecure and Urbanism tackles the overarching theme of ‘Collective City’, seeking to present both built projects and research that rethink, reclaim and interrogate the city as a collective project. As part of the Biennale's month long exhibition screening programme and the curatorial team invites filmmakers to submit work that presents and introduces the theme of ‘Collective City’ from broad and wide ranging contexts. Film is a direct and powerful way of conveying collectives as the subject of our enquiry, as well as a critique on the urban environments within which they form and operate.