Residual space and Artist-led Urban regeneration

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to re-address the value of the city that prompts our nostalgia and recover humanity and identity of the city exploring through case studies of Yeongdeungpo-gu Mullae-dong Art district. This study is focused on exploring the case study, Mullae-dong Art district, which is revitalizing the small-scale residual space through a cultural catalyst. This paper is divided into three parts and the first part would briefly introduce cultural catalysts as a one of a kind in urban catalysts as methodology for urban regeneration. The research on the historical background of Mullae-dong would help to better understand how the area has changed throughout the 1990s. The second part of this paper would try to find out the environmental factors that have caused the phenomenon of cultural catalyst through cultural activities of artists at Mullae-dong. It would be analyzed from the period when artists started to flow into the area. Finally, the physical products that has been regenerated via the local artists as catalyst of the chosen site at Mullae-dong would analyze what regenerating effects were brought up from the changes so that the environmental factors and regenerated products can become guidelines to provide support to achieve maximum urban regeneration with minimal investment.