The Korean artists MOON Kyungwon &#x26; JEON Joonho create works that address elemental questions concerning contemporary civilization in light of political, socioeconomic, and ecological changes. The exhibition project News From Nowhere, which they jointly initiated in 2012, is premised on a post-apocalyptic scenario: humanity has been wiped out almost entirely and is forced to reconsider long-held convictions that may no longer be tenable. The project is designed as a steadily evolving ensemble; earlier iterations were presented in Kassel (documenta 13) and Chicago. For their exhibition News From Nowhere: Zürich Laboratory, MOON &#x26; JEON collaborated with Urban-Think Tank in developing the idea of a mobile agora that also underlies the exhibition architecture.

News From Nowhere: Zürich Laboratory

‘Breaking the Binaries’

Publications

The work of Urban-Think Tank has centered on the dynamic cities of the Sur Global. These are spaces of ordered delirium and yawning inequality, defined by a fluid mode of development and a population that grows with every driving impulse. If cities are simultaneously lived and dreamed, then our task in imagining the teeming metropolises of 2050 is to envisage how social needs can best be translated into physical form.

2050: Designing Our Tomorrow

‘El Sur Global: Future Resilient City’

The center of gravity is shifting to the cities of the South, moving definitively below the equator. This shift is creating a new political and social equator – a messy, snaking line defined not by latitude, but by the global distribution of wealth. It skirts around neighborhoods, creating pockets of unimaginable affluence in Rio de Janeiro and zones of unexpected deprivation in Athens. South of this equator, urban communities are growing faster than ever anticipated, in the process posing challenges we are struggling to comprehend and address.

Now Urbanism: The Future City Is Here

‘Forget About Utopia’

This compact volume presents the curatorial visions behind the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (UABB 2015), and an overview of its various components. Each of the curators has charted a different approach to the theme of ‘Re-Living the City’. Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner call attention to the contributions of ordinary citizens in reshaping the urban fabric to their needs. They trace a brief history of radical urbanism, a concept that asks professional architects and planners to learn from ad hoc practices. The etymology of radical refers to roots, and indeed radical urbanism seeks the roots of urbanism in bottom-up innovations.

Title	UABB 2015 Volume 1: Re-Living the City
Authors	Alfredo Brillembourg & Hubert Klumpner
Release	December 2015
Editor	Gideon Fink Shapiro
Design	Thonik
Publisher	Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture
Pages	162

‘The Evolution of Radical Urbanism’

UABB 2015 Volume 1: Re-Living the City