INAUGURAL GSAPP WORLD ACTIONING SUMMIT IN SEOUL

On Saturday March 14, the inaugural GSAPP World Actioning Summit will take place in Seoul, Korea.

Although the need to move beyond a world structured by extractivism is widely acknowledged, the ways in which the built environment can actively enable relations of coexistence and care remain insufficiently addressed. Aligned with GSAPP’s commitment to bridging the gap between critical thinking and action, the World Actioning Coalition will serve as a catalyst for collective thinking, strategic intervention, and transdisciplinary collaboration between architects, economists, planners, artists, curators, researchers, engineers, academics, and all those shaping the built environment.

Speakers throughout the day will include: David Benjamin ’05 M.Arch (GSAPP, the living), Minsuk Cho ’92 M.Arch (MASS Studies), Rachaporn Choochuey ’98 MSAAD ((all)zone), Jong Ho Hong (SNU), Nahyun Hwang (GSAPP, NHDM), Dean Andrés Jaque (GSAPP), Lydia Kallipoliti (GSAPP, ANAcycle), Mireia Luzzarága (GSAPP, TAKK), Bart-Jan Polman ’10 MSAAD (GSAPP), Philippe Rahm (GSAPP, Philippe Rahm architectes), Wang Shu & Lu Wenyu (amateur architecture studio), Shirley Surya (M+), Marc Tsurumaki (GSAPP, LTL Architects), Mark Wasiuta (GSAPP), Weiping Wu (GSAPP), and many others.

The Coalition advances an ecological paradigm for the built environment that understands architecture and urbanism not as bounded objects, but as active agents within complex territorial systems. In this view, the urban exceeds the figure of the city, operating across scales, infrastructures, climates, and economies. The city is approached not as a fixed place, but as a transterritorial enactment that is distributed, political and ultimately ecological.

Please see the full program below:

10:30 AM

Coffee

11:00 AM

Welcome by Dean Andrés Jaque: Actioning Change in an Ecological Paradigm

11:15 AM

Panel 1: Politics as Ecology

Shirley Surya (M+), Mark Wasiuta (GSAPP)

Followed by a conversation moderated by Bart-Jan Polman

12:00 PM

Panel 2: Planning Climate

Jong Ho Hong (SNU), Weiping Wu (GSAPP)

12:45 PM

Lunch hosted by KGSAPP, Remarks One J. Lee ‘18 MSAUD

2:00 PM

Panel 3: Ecological Actioning Through Design

Rachaporn Choochuey ’98 MSAAD ((all)zone), Mireia Luzarrága (GSAPP, TAKK)

Followed by a conversation moderated by Bart-Jan Polman

3:00 PM

Panel 4: Resetting Architecture through Ecologies

David Benjamin ’05 M.Arch (GSAPP, the living), Lydia Kallipoliti (GSAPP, ANAcycle), Philippe Rahm (GSAPP, Philippe Rahm architectes), Marc Tsurumaki (GSAPP, LTL Architects), followed by a conversation with Nahyun Hwang (GSAPP, NHDM) and Bart-Jan Polman ’10 MSAAD (GSAPP)

4:00 PM

Keynote Panel: Ecological Recycling as Urbanism

Minsuk Cho ’92 M.Arch (MASS Studies), Wang Shu + Lu Wenyu (amateur architecture studio)

In conversation with Dean Andrés Jaque

5:30 PM

Reception

With gratitude to the GSAPP Dean’s Office, the GSAPP Alumni Board, and KGSAPP for their support and leadership in realizing this event. The Summit is open to the public, with priority for Columbia University affiliates.