Currently, 'City Gallery project' is in operation as a policy that intends to expand 'city design' nationally. This thesis is about 'city gallery project' and has researched the plans to solve problems of city in the view of city design by contributin...
Currently, 'City Gallery project' is in operation as a policy that intends to expand 'city design' nationally. This thesis is about 'city gallery project' and has researched the plans to solve problems of city in the view of city design by contributing to existent city redevelopment. Also, it has examined the fundamentally righteous city design of human-centered by establishing the image far from decoration or beautification as a simple aim.
As the instances of foreign city design, new-born cities with the design policies and city design and public arts in the surrounding region have been researched aimed at England, France, America and Japan. England had developed as design power by establishing the design strategies from 19th century and with government-oriented policies through Design Council and compulsory early education so that it could raise awareness. In the early 80s, a new city, Dock Land was born as systematic development plan of government and recently 'Design for London' project has been pronounced and it is putting spurs to activation of public design. France as a design power by enforcing design policy of local contact type has given effect to 'Grand Projet' for planned city maintenance and city image improvement; it has played an important role to form Paris's image. The case of La Defense is a long-term planned city as Grand Projet for about 30 years. Public art in America is managed by a private design organization with few design promotion organization by the government. Millenium Park as a landmark of Chicago was established with property of the National Railroad Administration and completed with cooperation of city government organization. Central Park in New york has been built by landscape architects, Frederick Law Olmsted andCalvert vaux and is evaluated as the world first modern park in downtown that is open to the public. In 2001, Japan government pronounced 'Urban Regeneration Project of 21th' for cities in decline. The main characteristic of urban regeneration project in Japan is that ministries and local public organizations, private contractors are cooperated each other under the leadership of the government from 'balanced development' to 'competitive development'.
This case has started as a group work between a city and artists by the public art policy in Seoul. It is the project to establish the typical city landscape by attracting art into a city based on the culture as city the competitive power and to form the city culture based on the city identity and to require to design the public area. The project of city gallery has attracted the participation of various artists such as city and architect artists, designers and artists to solve the problems with their enthusiasm through the general competition and nominated one. However, ' City Gallery Project' has the limitation that it has not reflect social demand and opinion of the citizens and has not been understood well and it has shown the administrative immaturity; thus, there have been trial and error and limitation in an experimental stage. Therefore, the government should establish awareness about design and support intensively so that it can succeed in further projects. Also, the public should join and attract their attention and awareness. The government should give autonomy to local government and support the activities of private organizations to involve them in a project.
The professional design education should be performed aimed at administrators in the local government and protect the misjudgement and rough-and-ready administrative processing. As a result, ' City Gallery Project' should establish a new image and identity of city and concern the underprivileged such as disabled, children, the elderly so that it can create human-centered cultural city, environmental city to activate local industries and economy as synergies.
In the modern times when the cultural circumstance is valued, public art acts as a crucial factor to determine the existence of city. ' City Gallery Project' in Seoul where culture is the core of city competitive power is opening a new era complete with quality and dignity to live in a city through the encounter between a city and art.