Cirque of Renewal
Balance healing on the frailty of the city
양보윤 YANG BO YUN • yangboyun07@gmail.com
윤서연 YOON SEO YEON • yoonsy0257@naver.com
LONDON URBAN RETREAT
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. This space, which is modernly reinterpreted and 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 opportunities to secure work space and 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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