"The Urban Ecology of Globalization" A presentation by Kyong Park

A self-proclaimed nomadic laboratory, Kyong Park, since 1998, has been traveling to work in different cities that are going through significant transition; from Detroit to East Germany, the Western Balkan and many more. His installations, videos, and urban research projects focus on the cycle and process of the decomposition and reconstitution of cities. Through devouring fresh and old territories, manifesting economic, political and cultural structures and little else. The belief that they can be controlled by designs and plans, either in democratic or totalitarian practices, he believes, is only partly true. Kyong Park presented a number of projects that explored the blurry conditions of Urban Ecology, an emergent field, which was then followed by an open discussion about the relationship between his work and the context of Belfast.