The Relevance of Approaches to Public Value in Urban Space
Value Reified by Fetishism
When trying to understand the meaning and value of an object, it is very useful to look at it in terms of its social context. This is the case when inspecting the project of Nodeul Island. Apart from the recent controversies about the symbolic nature and aesthetics of its architecture, a more prominent set of problems regarding the public development of the reserved common area can be defined through the two issues that arose at the completion of the project. They are 1) the government’s immature understanding of the commons and 2) the undemocratic administration of decision making among stakeholders engaged in the development. Additionally, the competition win of the operating authority was revoked; and as it is impossible to appoint the facility operator under the administrative regulations, the project seemingly returned to the conventional—implementing an architectural design competition first and relying on the system of a private trust that grants a restricted right of operation. Such series of trial and error are a common reality resulting from the rigidity of a system failing to accommodate citizens’ desire.
Then what would have been a desirable direction for the inculturation of the land and reconfiguring it as a territory for citizens? Rather than personalising each different viewpoint
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