Seoul Metropolitan Government
Seoul is embracing the future with specific design visions and strategies to deal with anticipated global and local environmental problems. The goal of this competition is to envision the sustainable urban life of the future in support of the new vision of Seoul. By broadening the scope of the futuristic ideas through this international competitiveness, the Seoul Metropolitan Government would like to incorporate the winning design schemes into its “New Visions of Seoul”. The winning design will be reflected into urban projects such as “Hangang Renaissance” and the “Clean and Green Seoul” projects to produce new urban products, systems and environments.

The objectives of the Seoul Design Competition 2008 are:
* To identify new design opportunities for sustainable city life
* To research and explore living design that uses natural elements such as earth, water, fire, and wind
To seek creative design solutions to be
* applied to future city design projects
* To promote young and talented designers around the world through the Seoul Design Competition
* To enhance public design awareness of the world through the promotion and exhibition of the Seoul Design Competition with creative and innovative design solutions

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