Listen to the City is a collective that engages with the issues of design, art, and the city. The four members of the collective are involved with matters of urban and river development, essentially considering the commons of the inside and outside of the city. Since its foundation in 2009, the collective has collaborated with numerous people outside the group. They have mainly worked on visualizing the unrecorded histories and invisible existences of the city. The collective publishes the independent magazine Urban Drawings, engages with Seoul Tour and the ecological issues of Naeseong River, and founded the Urban Film Festival. On the one hand, Listen to the City implements a series of direct action on urban issues (e.g. a movement for the preservation of the historical street called Okbaraji Alley—the street where the families and friends of the imprisoned political criminals stayed during the dictatorial regimes). On the other hand, the collective operates The Project Space Morae where related people discuss and explore new discourses on the environmental issues affecting the river and life.
