Emotional City, a global conference

27th & 28th September 2025

Multi-purpose Hall, 8th Fl., Seoul City Hall,

On the 27th and 28th of September 2025, a group of 400 business leaders, creative champions, community organisers, neuroscientists and city planners will gather at the start of the 2025 Seoul Biennale to spark an urgent global conversation about how cities get built.

The conference aims to set a new urban agenda and help make buildings and cities radically more human.  Through a mix of ground-breaking research, expert speakers, citizen-led projects and creative interventions, the event will explore the impact of the outside of buildings on our health and society; and how to create buildings that are loved and last, instead of being demolished and rebuilt.