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Snapshots from the second day in Seoul. After site visit to the Ewha Campus Complex Bert de Muynck|movingcities went exploring Seoul's Inner Circle Line. Build between 1978 and 1984, it is the city's longest subway line, with a total length of 60,2 kilometer and 43 stations. Investigating the state of the contemporary city in and around stations like Sinseol-dong, Sinsa, Banpo, Dairim and Dangsan gave some impression of ...

In Seoul, South-Korea, for a short three day visit. Icon asked Bert de Muynck|movingcities to write a review on the recently opened Ewha Campus Complex (located at the Ewha Womens University), designed by French office Dominique Perrault and South-Korean partner office Baum. In-between the site visit, some explorations on the city: snapshots of the first day in Seoul.

movingcities interviewed Alessandro Petti and Sandi Hilal on their new project, 'Decolonizing Architecture'. Set up in collaboration with Eyal Weizman, and produced by the Haudenschild Foundation, the project attempts to use architecture as an “arena of speculation” about possible futures of Palestine.

Last Thursday (May 29) "Line13 Superlinearity" workshop visited China´s leading landscape architectural office: TURENSCAPE Design Institute. Alejandro Cabrera Camprubi invited the students to have their in-work findings/presentations and offered an insight into some of the strategies and design principles underlying TURENSCAPE´s projects. We took Line13, stopping at Shangdi station (Zhongguancun District) and, with a diverse range of transportation means available, headed towards the office.

Between May 27 and May 31 movingcities is invited by Adrian Blackwell, Assistant Professor at Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design | University of Toronto to give a design workshop in Beijing, hosted by Theatre in Motion's studio. We will be looking closer, through a series of fieldtrips and programmatic interventions, into the Beijing's peri-urban condition along the Northern section of Line13.

movingcities publishes "Moving Cities: Life on the New Frontier" in Sarai Reader 07: Frontiers. SARAI is a programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, one of India’s leading research institutes with a commitment to critical and dissenting thought and a focus on critically expanding the horizons of the discourse on development, particularly with reference to South Asia.