Cirque of Renewal

FINALIST of London Urban Retreat: Haggerston Public Baths

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London Urban Retreat: Haggerston Public Baths

[20148]

Cirque of Renewal

Team

Name: Seoyeon Yoon

Instagram: yxxnn.si

Nationality: South Korea

Institution / Company: Kaywon University of Art & Design

Name: Boyun Yang

Instagram: bokong1218

Nationality: South Korea

Institution / Company: Kaywon University of Art & Design

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Haggerston is an area with the potential to create a new cultural ecosystem under gentrification pressure as long-lived communities and newly introduced young creative classes coexist. This project proposes a collaborative cultural network based on “Heterotopia” as a theoretical basis and mediated by circus. Heterotopia means a double space that exists in reality but makes the real order unfamiliar, and circus has traditionally been a “moving heterotopia” that has provided extraordinary experiences while patrolling everyday space.

It reinterprets the healing characteristics of the circus in a modern way and interrupts the daily ranks through cooperation and play, creating a place where the divided classes meet equally. This space, which is flexibly transformed into a workshop and resting place during the day and a concert hall at night, provides local residents with a resting place in the city and creators with work space and opportunities to secure public consumers. I would like to present a new public space that reflects the multi-layered identity of the Haggerston region by converting social tension into creative energy through a medium called circus.

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Jury Comments

– David Aldana

Original take for a community building which gives space to explore and embrace your inner creativity which at the same time gives a platform to share it to your community. I wonder if the concept could have been pushed a bit further and make the rest of the program focused on activities, classes and even therapies using performing arts as a fuel of disconnection and change

– Josefine Fokdal

A circus – not really responding to the brief (more of a working space for creative class)