Phorecast’s Tomas Seo handpicked to move a city!
March 13th, 2009
Wars and natural disasters are just a few of the reasons why people, for generations, have had to relocate from their homes all over the globe. In the Northern part of Sweden the mining industry has continued to expand and an unfortunate side effect has presented itself in several cities, the ground is crumbling. The beautiful town of Gellivare is one of those cities.
City Move Interdesign is a unique global event designed to tackle this pressing issue. The project is a partnership between ICSID, the Swedish Industrial Design Foundation (SVID) and the community of Gellivare and it will begin to tackle the enormous challenges that moving an entire population entails for both the inhabitants and for the city itself.
Phorecast founder Tomas Seo has been handpicked to join forty international experts and innovators for this multi-disciplinary project. During a two week think tank, innovators from a vast spread of competencies, will work together towards solving issues such as how to address the needs of people when relocating from their homes, physical conditions when planning a new society, sustainable factors for a new society and much more.
The findings from the City Move Interdesign project will become part of a knowledge bank that can be used in Sweden but also serve as groundwork internationally, for example when relocating populations ravished by political unrest and natural disasters.
International architects, psychologists, artists, engineers are just some of the disciplines joining together in this effort. Designer Tomas Seo has through much of his career worked in multi-disciplinary projects and is a strong believer in this method of collaboration. He is looking forward to contributing to this knowledge bank that will hopefully be of service to both Gellivare, other cites in Sweden and the international community.
I’m looking forward to this!
Reply to Tomas Seo »
Cool! Sounds like a really excited project. Best of luck. Looking forward to hear more when the time comes.
Reply to Hannes »
I’ll update my twitter with progress reports http://twitter.com/seoism
Reply to Tomas Seo »
This is freakin’ cool! Looking forward to hear what you and the rest of the posse come up with!
Reply to Johan Ronnestam »
Wow I can only imagine how hard of a task that would be. To move an entire city seems incredible hard. I would love to see more on how this project went. ti must be quite an honor to be chosen and to have a member of your team chosen to be apart of such a monumental task is something spectacular.
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