(Research Background and Purpose) Korea's rapid industrialization and urbanization, called the "miracle of the Han River," caused problems such as urban concentration of population and aging and decline of the original city center. Urban regeneration ...
(Research Background and Purpose) Korea's rapid industrialization and urbanization, called the "miracle of the Han River," caused problems such as urban concentration of population and aging and decline of the original city center. Urban regeneration at the national level began to solve various urban problems, and full-fledged local autonomy was implemented, and urban regeneration projects were actively promoted nationwide. However, in most urban regeneration projects, regional design was carried out in an external and peripheral manner without understanding the unique characteristics of the region. As a result, the understanding of the region and the search for new approaches and processes across national projects and research fields have laid the foundation for recognition that regional design should reflect regional identity. Currently, "regional design" provides the basic concept of regional implementation in local projects and research, and is recognized as a key value for expressing local cultural contents differentiated from other regions. In fact, however, there is little historical research to understand the conceptual change and context of regional design by integrating state-run projects and research fields.
This research focuses on the need for regional design research from a more historical and contextual perspective, and is an archival study that examines the concept and implementation of regional design in the context of paradigm change. By looking at regional design from a conceptual and cultural perspective, this is also to pursue the goal of sustainable regional design orientation based on regional characteristics and contributing to the creation of local culture. Accordingly, this research aims to lay the foundation for the study of regional design by analyzing regional design trends in urban regeneration based on keywords and deriving characteristics.
(Research Method) This study needs to understand the value of regional design from urban regeneration to what kind of concept it is, so we will first look at the theoretical examination of regional and urban regeneration, urban decline, and paradigm change. After that, we looked at the concept of regional design, analyzed examples of regional design for urban regeneration, and examined changes in the value of regional design by reflecting local characteristics. Archive research was conducted in two categories to identify trends in
regional design by era through state-run projects and academic research. In this study, 249 regional revitalization-related business plans and announcements promoted by four central administrative ministries and 1,405 academic papers on regional design were directly investigated and keywords were extracted from the contents. We studied the trends and trends of regional design by identifying the frequency of the extracted keywords through word cloud techniques, identifying the characteristics of regional design by year, analyzing
them, and deriving characteristics by era.
(result) The trend of regional design can be divided into four categories. Both categories were limited to functional roles in revitalizing the local economy. However, the focus has gradually shifted to core values of regional culture creation. In addition, the rapid transition of regional design platforms from offline to online has been attributed to the influence of a special situation called COVID-19.
(Conclusion) Regional design does not insist on the need for regional characteristics, but rather studies what the essential characteristics of the region are, and based on this, regional design that fully reflects local characteristics should be implemented. This study provides basic research data as an archive study to understand the change of regional design from urban regeneration to what value it has been, and is meaningful as a basic study for various approaches to regional revitalization. In the follow-up study, based on
basic research, we would like to present a vision of local design by conducting a regional design study that can predict new visions beyond the analysis of local design history, such as discovering regional characteristics and researching creative regional design processes.