How could memories of the common people be preserved and become the heritage of our future generations? This is the crux of the Seoul Future Heritage project led by Dr MIN Hyunsuk, a senior urban planner at the Seoul Institute.
In this seminar, Dr Min shared the vision of future heritage to preserve cultural artifacts, cultural acts and stories, and the physical background in which these artifacts and stories are formed. In particular, he highlighted the role played by the Seoul Metropolitan Government in supporting this bottom-up initiative in defining the memories of the Seoulites, and the economic value it has brought to the city.
The seminar has attracted more than 40 attendees and they were intrigued by the policy support of the project. There were also some fruitful exchanges and discussion about the deliberation process of what counted as “common memories”
