Home/Housing as a manifestation of lifestyles is a critical forum for us to gauge the way we render our living within the urban sphere.
NEXT HOME examines this 'living' as an architectural assignment, beyond and before the traces of commercial and personal paraphernalia.
Living as an urban interiority, and home/housing as a node within the interiority, NEXT HOME 2017 invites architectural projections on 'living nodes' within Seoul's tomorrow. The call-to-participate will focused on dispersed or assembled forms of mass-housing and/or collective-housing, with its unit-space at approximately 50 square meters (15 pyong or 500 square feet). The invitees were asked to extend their existing and/or ongoing research/insight to generate spatial speculations that foster discussions around the lived interiors/experiences of Seoul.
NEXT HOME invited over 300 designers from around the world. Each proposed project, along with its respective research content on Seoul's now, will be published in the forthcoming NEXT HOME book, to be published at the beginning of December 2017.
NEXT HOME is a crowd research project. We believe the collective and collaborative nature of the project is in itself a value and also a critical in discussion in developing and disseminating the research. Conceptually we are framing the project as a movement. For this year's first iteration, we have invited a range of people who have little or no direct experience with Seoul, Korean expats, or Korean natives/current residents, to cross-examine the perspectives of those with and without direct experience, to foster a range of discussions based on participants' biases, advantages, and disadvantages.
NEXT HOME is a book, in its outcome. As a book it will archive the current insights and iterations of the participants and, not unlike now defunct 'phonebook', it will index the like-minded designers and architects around the world. Further, it is our ambition to position the book as a reference manual for today's urban living both for the public and for the developers who are engaged in construction and consumption of the tomorrow's living spaces.