Rest-ism
Chung Isak opened a.co.lab architects in 2013, and has worked as a professor at Dongyang University since 2017. While carrying out social architecture projects and collaborative research projects, he has also participated as a designer or artist in architecture and contemporary art exhibitions. His representative works include Yeonpyeong Island Library, Yeonnam Red Brick House, and Yellow Flat Bench, and he was also a participant in exhibitions such as the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale (as curator and artist in the Korean Pavilion) and CAMP 2020 (as director). He is also the author of the book The Seoul, City Microhistory.
Balance and the Anomaly
I think most of my projects are directed towards people who dwell in neutral peripheral zones — that is, those who do not belong in mainstream spaces or units of routine distribution. I believe that the narratives that lie outside of the main circle also deserve to be recorded and remembered. In a word, I call this design inclination, ‘rest-ism’.
The ‘rest’ signals the unremarkable elements out on the outskirts of a city or town that often remain untouched for long periods. They are unmemorable and the changes that they may undergo
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