Moments of the Future’: Imagining the City and Monuments of Pyongyang in 2050

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J. Mandić
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The possibility of reconciliation between the two Koreas and a potential change of the political regime in North Korea raises the question of the urban futures of North Korean cities, which at the moment serve as a stage for power consolidation through the monumental propaganda of the present regime. This paper examines an urban design project that imagines urban future of Pyongyang in 2050 and its colossal socialist era monuments after an assumed unification. Instead of erasing the socialist past of the city by removing the existing monuments (which was the practice in other socialist countries), this project proposes adding new layers of monuments that would represent and commemorate the new political and economic realities of ‘unification,’ and at the same time preserve the identity and legibility of the city. This alternative strategy was made possible by combining design thinking with the scenario technique utilized in Future Studies. Within the framework of the established scenario and politico-economic circumstances it compels, the method of writing History of the future was developed as a tool for envisioning an urban reality of 2050 Pyongyang, from which the Grid of Moments project would arise. The resulting project, conceived within the fictional story, allows historical and future ideologies, represented by the historical and new monuments, to coexist in Pyongyang through concurrent and respective acknowledgement. In this way, the role of architecture is shifted from serving the political regime towards acting as a social critique, as well as inducing a social transformation. These thought strategies were enabled by approaching design through scenario and storytelling method developed within it, as it left space for more imagination and creativity, and introduced a degree of objectivity to the design process by allowing different ideologies to be considered.
“未来时刻”:想象2050年的平壤城市和纪念碑
南北和解的可能性和北韩政权交替的可能性,引发了北韩城市未来的问题。目前,北韩城市通过现政权的大规模宣传,成为巩固权力的舞台。本文考察了一个城市设计项目,该项目想象了2050年平壤的城市未来,以及它在假定统一后的巨大的社会主义时代纪念碑。这个项目并没有通过移除现有的纪念碑来抹去城市的社会主义历史(这是其他社会主义国家的做法),而是建议增加新的纪念碑层,以代表和纪念“统一”的新的政治和经济现实,同时保持城市的身份和易读性。通过将设计思维与未来研究中使用的场景技术相结合,这种替代策略成为可能。在既定情景和政治经济环境的框架内,书写未来历史的方法被发展为一种工具,用于设想2050年平壤的城市现实,从此开始,网格时刻项目将产生。由此产生的项目,在虚构的故事中构思,允许历史和未来的意识形态,以历史和新的纪念碑为代表,通过并行和各自的承认在平壤共存。通过这种方式,建筑的角色从为政治制度服务转变为作为社会批判,以及诱导社会转型。这些思想策略是通过场景和叙事方法来实现的,因为它为更多的想象力和创造力留下了空间,并通过允许考虑不同的意识形态,为设计过程引入了一定程度的客观性。
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