Gwangju City to Hold Online Seminar on Sangmu Incineration Plant Space Utilization Strategy on the 16th

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 15th that it will hold an online seminar titled ‘Strategy Establishment for Space Utilization of the Incineration Plant Factory Building’ through YouTube on the 16th.

This seminar was organized to set the direction of the cultural regeneration project linked with the representative library of the Sangmu Incineration Plant by sharing the spatial potential and necessity of cultural regeneration of the Sangmu Incineration Plant through lectures on excellent cases of cultural regeneration of domestic and international abandoned industrial facilities and expert discussions on the proposed spatial utilization strategy for the Sangmu Incineration Plant. It aims to explore ways to enhance the public nature and business feasibility of the cultural regeneration project.

In particular, in accordance with social distancing policies due to COVID-19, the seminar will be held online in a non-face-to-face format. To form public consensus on the incineration plant’s cultural regeneration project among general citizens, it will be conducted in two parts: a general public session (Part 1) introducing cases of cultural regeneration of abandoned industrial facilities, and an expert session (Part 2) where experts participate in discussions on the basic conceptual plan for the cultural regeneration of the incineration plant factory building.

In the general public session, architects who participated in projects such as Bucheon Art Bunker ‘B39’ and Seoul Mapo ‘Oil Tank Culture Park’ will directly introduce the know-how necessary for cultural regeneration of domestic abandoned industrial facilities, aiming to attract the interest and consensus of general citizens so that the incineration plant factory building can be utilized as a symbolic cultural space of the region.

In the expert session, participants will include Professor Ham In-seon, Chief Architect of Gwangju Metropolitan City; Kim Young-jun, Director of the Urban Architecture Research Institute and the second Chief Architect of Seoul; Senior Researcher Kim Jae-cheol of the Gwangju-Jeonnam Research Institute; Park Hong-geun, CEO of For You Architects; and Jo Deok-jin, Culture and Sports Department Director of Mudeung Ilbo. They will discuss ways to establish the factory building’s role as a new cultural production base of Gwangju in connection with the representative library planned to be built on the incineration plant site.

The seminar will be broadcast live from 1:20 PM on the YouTube channel ‘Incineration Plant Culture Studio’ while complying with quarantine rules, and any citizen can submit various opinions through comments.

Gwangju City plans to reflect the comments to concretize the utilization plan of the incineration plant factory building focusing on citizens’ cultural welfare.

Kim Jun-young, Director of the Culture, Tourism and Sports Office of the city, said, “Although it is difficult due to COVID-19, we prepared an online seminar to collect opinions on the cultural regeneration plan of the incineration plant factory building,” and added, “We will strive to find the optimal direction for the incineration plant factory building linked with the representative library.”

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