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Seoul Upcycling Plaza (SUP)

  • Overview

    Valuable upcycling practices in daily life

    The Seoul Upcycling Plaza is the world's largest upcycling complex cultural space where visitors can see, learn and experience everything regarding upcycling. The Seoul Upcycling Plaza is equipped with recycling/sorting workshops, material banks (where materials can be procured), upcycle manufacturing companies, stores, exhibition halls and training centers, so citizens can experience the entire process of upcycling. As a space where valuable and healthy cycle of production, distribution and consumption is achieved through citizens' participation, many educational events that require citizen participation, and various support programs for companies to foster the upcycling industry are available, in hopes to expand upcycling culture. Moreover, we are creating an upcycling culture that saves the environment through fun and easy experiences of the entire upcycling process.

     

    • Location: 49, Jadongchasijang-gil, Seongdong-gu, Seoul
    • Main Area : Building Area 16,540㎡ (B2–5F)
    • Established : March 31, 2017
    • Opening Date : September 5, 2017
  • Direction
    “100% Upcycling” of Idle Resources: Human, Material and Intellectual Resources

    From occupying to sharing
    Sharing of all resources including design, exhibitions, experiences, presentations, lectures, trainings, promotions and etc.

    Expansion from industry experts to citizens’ creative participation
    Participated by scientists, architects, designers, authors, artists, professors, entertainers

  • Space
    교육(Education), 행사(Event), 전시(Exhibition), 네트워크(Network), 시설(Facilities) 교육(Education), 행사(Event), 전시(Exhibition), 네트워크(Network), 시설(Facilities)
    Space configuration table consisting of floors, details
    5F · Restaurant : A space with a healthy buffet where you can enjoy a nutritious meal.
    · Education Room : A space for Seoul Upcycling Plaza's various education programs.
    4F · Facilities : Studio spaces and showrooms for upcycling companies, research institutes, associations, designers and writers.
    · Education Room : A space for Seoul Upcycling Plaza's various education programs.
    3F · Facilities : Studio spaces and showrooms for upcycling companies, research institutes, associations, designers and writers.
    · Cafe (2021 currently out of operation)
    2F · Material Library : A space to discover and introduce materials to be distributed in the future in addition to the upcycled materials that are currently being used.
    · Eco-friendly Industrial Experience Learning Center : Designated by ECO-UNESCO and located in Seongdong-gu, the global educational city, this space operates as an educational space teaching resource recycling and eco-friendliness.
    · SUPer MARKET, SUP Playground : A space with a market, where you can buy upcycled products, and an experience booth, where you can try out upcycling kits.
    1F · Seoul Upcycling House : As a model house that shows the upcycling lifestyle, it is a complex cultural space for upcycling activities such as experience-themed content, exhibition and community workshops.
    · Dream Factory (Fab Lab) : A space where visitors, tenants, related workers and others may gather for training, creating, and fixing various items.
    · Outdoor Creation Room : A creative space that supports the creation by upcycling artists and experiments and produces large-scale products in connection with Dream Factory.
    B1 · Material Bank : A space that serves as an offline store and a space to establish an online ecosystem where suppliers and consumers coexist for the purpose of material research and education.
    · Wok Place (Beautiful Store) : A space operating as a distribution center for Yongdap Beautiful Store, where used goods donated from the Beautiful Store are reclassified and processed.

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