Common Ground: Australia - Korea Creative Practices in Dialogue Symposium in Seoul/Melbourne 2024

• Investigators

  • • Hae-Won Shin
    • Louise Wright
    Monash University

• Co-Investigators

  • • Yerin Kang, Seoul National University
    • Sunmin Park, Artist
    • Christine Werheim, Artist

• Funded by

  • Australian Embassy Seoul

• Undertaken within

  • Monash Urban Lab

How do the rapid transformations in our cities and climate pose challenges to those working in the design- and built- environments? Common Ground AKCPD is a response to these issues; a dialogue between contemporary Korean and Australian architects and other creative practitioners.

Starting from the position that art and architecture can be seen as the connective tissue between multiple contemporary concerns and disciplines, Common Ground AKCPD is a cross-cultural exchange where artists and architects discuss each other's practices. This dialogue aims to mutually enhance and develop each artist’s practice around issues facing urban and natural environments. The symposium will develop and disseminate a series of cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary techniques currently used by creative practitioners. Themes include rewilding, collaborative-making, repair, and urban-nature interfaces, etc. Practices include large-scale community art, crochet, demolition techniques, land-sharing between different natural systems, mushroom architecture, and talking trees, etc.

This initiative is a continuation of the first Common Ground dialogue addressing Melbourne and Seoul. This 2024 symposium/ roundtable will continue to address the themes of settlement, growth and repair. These dialogues will be documented and be edited to be made into a publication.

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