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synopsis The Free Port of Mokpo
Mokpo's "Treeport" development promises a bright future for Mokpo-- a future of expanding economic opportunities, prosperous lifestyles, modern, high-tech residential communities, and shining corporate industrial and office parks. The new container port and associated private development, along with large-scale public infrastructure projects like the TGV, promises to become a catalyst for regional prosperity. With Treeport, Mokpo hopes to become a player in a prosperous network of global free trade.
Our team proposes another, parallel port project for Mokpo: one with equally grand ambitions but very different goals. Like Treeport, the "Free Port of Mokpo" will call upon modern myths of free trade, economic opportunities, global culture, entrepreneurship, special economic zones, information, and knowledge-based capital. Like Treeport, it will draw upon ancient images: the port city (which has always been associated with cultural mixing, strange customs, different laws, freedom, and license) and the archipelago (which has been a privileged setting for culture and civilization since Greek times). Unlike Treeport, the "Free Port of Mokpo" will encourage its citizens to develop a creative, independent way of life. The "free port" is an experimental community: its citizens will have the power to propose new social and institutional structures, valid within the port's borders, and with potential applications elsewhere in Korea and the world. The "free port" will pride itself on new approaches to urban planning, environmental regulation, business practices, manufacture, money circulation, and public services in fields of education, transportation, social security, and health-- all based on principles of democratic representation, transformability, and the minimization of waste and risk. New social/institutional structures may eventually become the "free port's" major export goods.
Each member of the design team will choose a primary social function (like those listed above), propose new tools and strategies for its organization, and envision a corresponding physical setting within the "free port." Participants will draw upon many sources of inspiration, including Christiania in Copenhagen, AVL-ville in Rotterdam, Curitiba in Brazil, computer MUD's (multiple user domains), SimCity 3000, the drawings of Paul Noble, and Joseph Beuys' Free University. Writings of contemporary sociologists, urbanists and economists, including Jane Jacobs, Ulrich Beck, Majid Rahnema, and Wolfgang Sachs, will provide a theoretical framework.
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