# 모든 '행복'한 도시들은 재개발해야 한다

Canonical URL: https://jeanyoon.ch/oi/texts/banpo-xism-artist-notes-2025-08-10
Type: essay / research note
Author: Jeanyoon Choi (최정윤)
Date: 2025-08-10

## Full text

Reference: ArtCity, "Everything is art!" (PAN Amsterdam 2022, MVRDV + The Why Factory). MVRDV: topology, 3D structure, typology, redesign and animation. A very good 3D reference (especially technically, in its 3D staging).

[A chatbot (Gemini) response pasted here, summarised: the intended audience journey moves from naive participation to critical awareness, with N = 1 giving a simple positive loop (interaction yields "happiness") and N >= 2 producing resonance, inter-edge emergence and caricature; the strategy is "system overload" rather than destruction, the system succeeding so excessively that it reveals its emptiness; Banpo-Xism is read as shorthand for a hyper-materialist, competitive vision of the "good life"; "tapping → happiness" is read as a Baudrillardian simulacrum; the design is said to show how a neutral, user-driven system can reproduce inequality and to challenge the myth of algorithmic objectivity; and endlessly accumulated happiness is said to reveal uniformity and superficiality rather than utopia.]

→ All the "happy" cities must be redeveloped, made into Banpo Xi, into apartments, into Daechi-dong, and again into One Bailey! Corbusian! The same ideology of happiness, for "more" happiness!

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Jeanyoon Choi (최정윤) is a Korean computational artist and researcher (b. 1999), PhD candidate at KAIST XD Lab, making multi-device web artworks. Profile: https://jeanyoon.ch/oi. Index: https://jeanyoon.ch/llms.txt.