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Thematic Exhibition

Humanise has been designed to spark a public conversation about how we make the outsides of buildings in Seoul radically more human. Citizens and creators from many different fields have come together to share their experience and ideas in response to two fundamental questions: / “How do the buildings in this city make you feel?” “How can we make them more joyful and engaging?” Their answers are expressed through three exhibitions of the thematic exhibition.
  • Songhyeon Green Plaza Songhyeon Green Plaza
    Humanise Wall

    The installation Humanise Wall, represents a large-scale Jogakbo tapestry, stitching together the experience and ideas of Seoul’s citizens alongside international designers. It represents an approximately 90m long, 16m high wall full of reflections, provocations and ideas. The wall has two clear sides with information―one for reflections, the other for proposals. This shows the Seoul of today and tomorrow.
    The installation takes these ideas and literally twists them together, creating a wall full of artworks that twists in mid-air to create a canopied gathering space before completing the twist that meets at the ground again.

열린송현녹지광장 쪽 Songhyeon Green Plaza Side A B C D E F G H I J K / 도로 쪽 Road Side L M N O P Q R S T Q

Songhyeon Green Plaza Side

Left Side
HUMANISE Manifesto
  • A Introduction This Is about the Outsides of Buildings
  • B The Blandemic

    What Happened to Our Cities?

  • C How Did This Happen?

    The Rise of Modernism

  • D The Impact on Cities Today

    Why Does Everything Look like Money?

  • E This Isn’t about Taste

    The Research, the Proof, New vs Old

  • F Why Boring Is Bad for Us

    Bad for Our Health,
    the Planet, Society

  • G The Manifesto

    Message from the General Director

Right Side
Walls of Public Life
  • H Building Textures (Above the Twist)
  • I Photos from Interesting Buildings around the World
  • J Photos from the Heatherwick Studio and the Walls of Public Life’s Creators
  • K Intro

    To the Buildings That Surround Us

Road Side

Left Side
HUMANISE Manifesto
  • L Introduction

    This Is about the Outsides of Buildings

  • M What Can We Do

    Let’s Humanise!

  • N Necessary Visual Complexity

    Ways to Make Buildings More Interesting

  • O Three Ways to Change Our Thinking

    Emotion as a Function, 1000 Year Thinking, Prioritise Door Distance

  • P The Humanise Rule

    Catching Your Interest/City, Street, Door

  • Q The Manifesto

    Message from the General Director (Under the Twist)

Right Side
The Creative Communities
  • R Building Textures (Above the Twist)
  • I Photos from Interesting Buildings around the World
  • T The Creative Communities Artworks
  • U Intro

    To the Creative Communities

  • Songhyeon Green Plaza, Seoul Hall of Urbanism & Architecture Hour Gallery Songhyeon Green Plaza, Seoul Hall of Urbanism & Architecture Hour Gallery
    Creative Communities Project :
    Most Public, Most Human

    This work showcases the voices and ideas of the 9 creative communities, selected as winners of the open call for the 5th Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2025. 9 creative communities collaborated with more than 1,000 Seoul community members to produce works that envision more humanised buildings and cities.
    These works are presented as part of the Humanise Wall as well through individual pieces, offering a rich diversity of visions for the future of the city and architecture.

Creative Communities Project
(Hour Gallery-Seoul Hall of Urbanism & Architecture)

P1~P8
Creative Communities Project
(Hour Gallery)
  • P1 If You Love Seoul, You Can Wear It

    Jiyong Jeon, Sein Jin, Eunseok Hur, Yeonkyung Ahn

  • P2 A Complex for Diverse Minds

    Haeyoung Seo

  • P3 Facade of Time

    Jung Yun Roh+geo.Logic Lab

  • P4 Our Hagwon

    Team Vertical Paradox

  • P5 The Walking Drawing

    Moon Joo Lee, Kruti Shah, Sebastian Trujillo-Torres

  • P6 TRACING EMOTIONAL BUKCHON: A Teenager-Led Journey through a StoryMap

    Joon Won Suh & Jee Won Lee

  • P7 Facade-ish Lab(-or)s. Euljiro

    Hyeokyoung Lee & Yewon Lee

  • P8 A World of Common Things

    Melody Song & Maya West

  • P9 Soft Edges : Weaving the Colors of Fields and Home

    Namhi Kwun & Bryan Honting Wong

  • Songhyeon Green Plaza Songhyeon Green Plaza
    Walls of Public Life

    The 24 wall structures presented in this exhibition demonstrate various methods of creating the essential “visual complexity” in facade design. They actively use diverse materials, textures, and patterns to explore how intentional decorative elements play a crucial role in building facades. As a collection, the walls suggest the emotions that building facades evoke in us and propose ways for buildings to resonate more emotionally and be more engaging.

한옥 파빌리온 ‘짓다’ Jitda Pavilion / 감성 건축 워크숍 & 이벤트 Creative Learning Workshop & Event / 의무실+사무실 Medical & Oce / 휴먼라운지 Human Lounge / 개방 화장실 Public Restroom / 안내데스크 Information / A T1~T24

A Humanise Wall
T Walls of Public Life

Humanise Wall
  • A Humanise Wall
Walls of Public Life
  • T1 Echo

    Bureau de Change

  • T2 Patterns of Identity

    Yinka Shonibare

  • T3 Let it Breathe

    Anupama Kundoo

  • T4 Beyond the Pines

    Kere Architecture

  • T5 Wall

    Wang Shu & Lu Wenyu

  • T6 The Intersection Wall

    Hankuk Carbon

  • T7 All Things Dangerously Beautiful

    Stephen Webster

  • T8 Unfamiliar Landscape

    YOAP Architects

  • T9 What if Walls Were Grown, Not Built?

    Anomalia

  • T10 A Restaurant Alive

    Edward Lee

  • T11 The Window of Light

    Korea Furniture Museum

  • T12 The Healing Wall

    Hyundai Motor Group

  • T13 Residual Heritage

    A.CO.LAB

  • T14 Swept Away

    Ronald Rael

  • T15 Wall of Public Playfulness

    Hawkins\Brown

  • T16 KIGUMI

    KENGO KUMA & ASSOCIATES

  • T17 Breathing Cells

    MAD Architects

  • T18 Seoul Scene

    SOSU Architects

  • T19 High Rise Hanok

    Arup

  • T20 Juliet Balcony

    More Less Architects

  • T21 Rock and Wall

    NAMELESS

  • T22 Handspeak

    Bapossan Alempoua & Asseta Idogo

  • T23 Elevations of Meaning

    Ozwald Boateng

  • T24 In Light of Nature

    Stella McCartney