Museum as a method…

… to visualize the community

Museum of Complaints APAP2010

Complaint as part of urban culture

Complaints as an index of urban living

Complaints as indicator of need and hope

How can complaints become the force of change?

Grass-roots/

Shops Middle Class/

Apartments

Grass-roots/

Apartments

CMP Museum of

Complaints –

Area of Study

Middle Class/

Shops

Grass-roots/

Shops

CMP Museum of

Complaints –

Area of Study

New apts (Samsung

Lemian / Ddue

Ran Chae)

Old apts (Jinheung)

New

Shopping

area

(Conceptual map based on

development around Anyang

Station; outling the area and

samplings of research)

Nambu Mkt

Old ind shops

Old ind

shops

Chungang

Mkt CGV Bldg

Anyang

Station

Data

collection

Museum

making:

visuali-

zation

Museum 3:

Indoor

exhibition

NGOs

Citizens

Museum 2:

Local tours

Museum 1:

Area-wide

“signage”

Museum of Complaints: The Process

Project: Street as Museum series

A form for visual culture (2005- )

The study of visual knowledge &

ecology of the “Wedding Card Street”

Visual culture: From the most

obvious – Iron gates

Visual culture: Letterboxes &

door bells

Ecology: Evolution of print shops

Ecology: Kaifong relation

Guided tour by local residents

LTS image as anchor

LTS image as anchor

Project: You Are What You Freeze

How fridge speaks (2008)

Interim sharing

Interim sharing

Interim sharing

Reference: “signage”

Reference: “signage”

Street as Museum: Cultural Tour

Series

Reference: local tours

Data

collection

Museum

making:

visuali-

zation

Museum 3:

Indoor

exhibition

NGOs

Citizens

Museum 2:

Local tours

Museum 1:

Area-wide

“signage”

Museum of Complaints: The Process

Categorized analysis; anchor for discussion

Joining the dots under various themes

Visualization & articulation on site