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  • Community capacity building in marginalised neighbourhoods of Seoul*

    Three decades ago, South Korean director Kim Dong-won made two important documentaries about the struggles and everyday life of the people of Songhak Maeul. Yet Songhak Maeul remains little-known as a successful case of community capacity building in a marginalised neighbourhood in Seoul. This article provides a historical background and explains the impact of market-driven urban redevelopment on neighbourhood…

  • Fieldwork on community gardening in Singapore

    Fieldwork on community gardening in Singapore is coming to an end. During his stay, Blaž talked to more than twenty interviewees including gardeners, garden managers and community activists from Boon Lay Nature Garden, Clementi Woods Park Allotment, City Sprouts at Henderson and West Coast Park, Funan Urban Farm, Horts Park Allotment, Jalan Peletok Art Garden,…

  • Korean neighbourhoods beyond Korea

    Neighbourhoods are known for their social networks and identities embedded in particular places. Blaž will present on a seminar on Korean neighbourhoods beyond Korea, comparing three Korean neighbourhoods with strong social networks and distinct identities based on social class and/or ethnicity. Of these neighbourhoods, only Haengdang-dong is located in Korea. It used to be one…

  • Education and the uptake of research in society

    CASIE aims to promote the uptake of research in society through knowledge exchange and collaboration between the academia, communities, civil society, and the public sector. Social learning and transformative education are important means to achieve this goal. In the coming weeks, Blaž will talk to the pupils of Primary School in Trnovo, architecture students at…

  • Urban gardening in South Korea and Slovenia as neighbourhood collective action*

    Ieum and Onkraj gradbišča community gardens in Incheon and Ljubljana show that the social importance of urban gardening as a neighbourhood collective action is growing in South Korea and Slovenia, largely due to the engagement of urban gardening activists and civil society organisations. Introduction: Urban gardening as collective actionUrban gardening refers to non-commercial food production…

  • Civic urbanisms in East Asia

    Blaž will present a new book on civic urbanisms in East Asia at the East Asia Resource Library in Ljubljana. Discussion on the collaboration between Asian studies and urban studies will follow the book presentation. In parts of Asia, citizens are increasingly involved in shaping their neighbourhoods and cities. This marks a significant departure from…

  • Why Casie?

    CASIE seeks to understand and highlight the importance of collective action and social innovation for resilient neighbourhoods and cities in East Asia and Europe. Two-thirds of the world’s population is expected to live in cities, which are considered the engines of global and national economic growth and hubs of social, cultural, and political life. However,…

  • Casie is alive!

    CASIE is alive and kicking! After some delays, the research project Neighbourhood Collective Action and Social Innovation for Resilient Cities in East Asia and Europe, CASIE is officially launched today. CASIE seeks to understand and highlight the importance of collective action and social innovation for building resilient neighbourhoods and cities across East Asia and Europe.…