Bojagi Lounge | Izaskun Chinchilla

An outdoor pavilion for ‘ZONE 7; Your Imaginary Space’, an Anyang Public Art Project (APAP), reflecting on how circular economy is part of traditional culture, especially female intangible heritage, while celebrates nature and biodiversity

Anyang is a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, with a population of approximately 600,000. It is a satellite city of Seoul located around 21 km south. The City motto of Anyang is "Livable city, Proud citizens".

Anyang Public Art Project (APAP, @apap7.official ) is a public art event that encourages its participants to reimagine the way they understand and perceive the city. It is a project to transform the city itself into a gallery in which people can enjoy art in their daily life by introducing and presenting context and environment of the changing modern city, such as history, culture, landform, and development of Anyang with various forms of public artworks, such as art, sculpture, architecture, design, and performance. It is co-existing with the people of the city in their daily life.
APAP explores and deals with nonlinear imaginary spaces around cities, which are modern human settlements and centers of political, social and economic activities.
For its 7th edition, the event explores and presents what "imaginary space and new public art in the city" is. It presents Anyang as a new imaginary space "ZONE 7," not six spaces (ZONE 1-6) under the city's 2030 future city development plan.

Bojagi is the Korean traditional cloth that is used for covering, wrapping, and carrying any items like household goods, food, and gifts. It can be made of one big fabric or small pieces of fabric stitched together just like the patchwork.

Norigae is the Korean traditional knot tassel, an accessory, for women to be hung on hanbok top (jeogori), Korean traditional clothing. This can also be used to make your gift wrapping so much more elegant. With bojagi and norigae, Compare with paper wrapping Bojagi has also the great advantage reusable.

In our proposition we want to present the time we spend in nature as a gift. We are offering an space to read and to listen to birds signing in the entrance garden. The elements allowing you this actions will be wrapped in an outdoor textile donated from the brand sunbrella (guarantee for 20 years outdoor resistance) following some of the Bojagi and Norigae traditions.

We have designed two main element: a lamp and speaker and a sofa. Both one sofa and one lamp and speaker consists of 2 inflatable donut and a square made out of textile. The square is wrapped around the donut creating a unit. Speaker-lamps units will be hanging from and structure built around trees whereas sofas will rest in the ground with the support of a plywood CNC cut piece. We will form two big rings: one over the ground composed of sofas and one hanging from the structure surrounding a tree.

The result will be two circles in which you can sit, relax and listen to birds singing (reproduced in an audio) or read a selected book (available in the central piece). Although the top ring seems to be holding from the tree truck it is in fact hanging from an auxiliar structure built around the tree. That structure is composed of 4 ladders joined at the top. The ladders have little shelves, cut in plywood with CNC to support the books. Natural plant planting around the rings could increase the charm and beauty of the installation and are considered and important part of the action.

Ideally we would like to build 3 rings, but due to budget restrictions we have come with a modular proposition that can allow to build one, two of three rings and can allow to make them bigger and smaller.

AIMS & OBJECTIVES

• Analyze and celebrate the contemporary values of craftsmanship and the role of women in Korean society showing how they have evolved from 14th century; gaining in social, environmental, economic, political, cultural, identity and innovative relevance.
• Understand how female culture was historically linked with circular economy, systematically applied to domestic economy.
• Research on how innovation, digital fabrication or new materials can empower makers to produce customized products from industrial leftovers that engage with bigger social groups, consumed through alternative networks.
• Design and produce an attractive physical installation in a natural environment surrounded by several interventions engaging with the research findings and introducing tailored craft products.
• Track and evaluate the production of the installation increasing its academic relevance and helping produce a paper or formal academic article and a descriptive book chapter or brochure.
• Share the research hypothesis and the making of the exhibition by social media to increase the impact of the work and to gather reactions.

Pictures: DongWoong Lee @woodonn

Open to public from August 25th to November the 2nd

This project has been supported by:

Acción Cultural Española @acecultura . An agency that orchestrates public support for the promotion of culture, both in Spain and overseas. They have supported us through their  Programme for the Internationalisation of Spanish Culture (PICE) with the aim of enhancing its presence abroad.

The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College of London @bartlettarchucl @ucl . One of the most influential, exciting and innovative architecture schools in the world, has contributed to the project through their Architecture Research Fund

@sunbrellaeurope have donated the fabrics for the project @sunbrella is the worldwide benchmark dedicated to boat equipment fabrics, integrates performance and design to come up with textiles for use in the nautical sector but also in interior and exterior upholstery.

Assembled by @dasanart_fineart

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Un pabellón al aire libre, para ‘ZONE 7; Your Imaginary Space’ de Anyang Public Art Project (APAP), que reflexiona sobre cómo la economía circular es parte de la cultura tradicional, especialmente del patrimonio intangible femenino, al tiempo que celebra la naturaleza y la biodiversidad. Situado en Anyang, ciudad satélite de Seúl (Corea del Sur) con una población que ronda los 600.000 habitantes.

APAP es un evento de arte público que anima a sus participantes a reimaginar la forma en que entienden y perciben la ciudad. Busca transformar la ciudad en una galería en la que la gente pueda disfrutar del arte en su vida diaria, introduciendo y presentando el contexto y el entorno de la cambiante ciudad moderna, su historia, su cultura, la forma del terreno y su desarrollo mediante diversas formas públicas de arte.

Bojagi es la tela tradicional coreana que se utiliza para cubrir, envolver y transportar cualquier artículo doméstico, comida o regalos. Puede estar hecho de una sola pieza o de pequeños trozos de tela cosidos como en el patchwork.

Norigae es la borla de nudo tradicional coreana, un accesorio que las mujeres pueden colgar en la parte superior del hanbok (jeogori), la vestimenta tradicional coreana. Esto también se puede utilizar para hacer que el envoltorio de tu regalo sea mucho más elegante. En comparación con el papel, el envoltorio Bojagi tiene la gran ventaja de ser reutilizable.

Nuestra propuesta presenta como un regalo el tiempo que pasamos en la naturaleza. Ofrecemos un espacio para leer y escuchar el canto de los pájaros. Los elementos que permiten estas acciones están envueltos en un textil de exterior, donado por Sunbrella, siguiendo algunas de las tradiciones Bojagi y Norigae.

Hemos diseñado dos elementos principales: una lámpara con altavoz y un sofá. Tanto el sofá como la lámpara constan de 2 donuts hinchables y una pieza de tela cuadrada. La tela se envuelve alrededor del donut creando una unidad. Las lámparas-altavoz cuelgan de una estructura construida alrededor del árbol, mientras que los sofás descansan en el suelo sobre una base de madera contrachapada cortada con CNC. Forman dos grandes anillos: uno sobre el suelo y otro que cuelga de la estructura, rodeando un árbol.

Aunque el anillo superior parece estar sujeto al tronco del árbol, en realidad cuelga de una estructura auxiliar construida a su alrededor para protegerlo. Dicha estructura está compuesta por 4 escaleras unidas en la coronación. Las escaleras tienen pequeños estantes, de madera contrachapada cortada con CNC, para guardar libros.

Dos círculos en los que podrás sentarte, relajarte y escuchar el canto de los pájaros o leer un libro de tu elección.

Este proyecto cuenta con el apoyo de: Acción Cultural Española (AC/E), The Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL) y la marca de telas Sunbrella.