2020 Incheon International Conceptual Design Competition Representative

Moon Incheol <A strange encounter>

Due to the rise of the sea level in 2077, the closer living to the sea of Incheon, the lower the land price and quality of life, and the development has also stopped. The gap between the rich and poor in Korea has not been resolved over time. The time traveler arrives at the pier near Incheon and meets an AI robot who believes in unknown religion and faith.

Hong Hye Jin <The Metropolis, ‘Beyond-I’>

In 2077, despite the effort of modern technology, the Earth was seriously damaged due to the spread of an unknown virus and reckless industrial constructions. Under the command of a scientist, Dexter, a group of billionaires comes up with an idea to evacuate to the past to maintain their fame and wealth. They go back in time and created a new metropolis ‘Beyond-I’ in Incheon in 1900, a hybrid city integrated with innovative future and the past civilizations.

Kim Ji Woo <Arcadium>

The Arcadium, an airship that functions as a city, arrives in London through time and space. Reporter is preparing to report a story, with walking machine that is reproducing a historical scene and the Arcadium in the background.

Park Jong Won <Stranger>

In the middle of London in 1900, there is a girl who came from the year of 2077 through the wormhole with futuristic bike and she is getting all the attention around her.

Woo Sang Tack <Stranger>

In 2077, while digging into space resources, a man entered a portal similar to a black hole and traveled to Wellington in 1900. His sudden landing destroyed the buildings so an emergency alarm occurred, causing the army to dispatch. People of Wellington attacks on an object they’ve never seen before and a pilot is hesitating inside the robot.

Yun Chan Ho <London Art Auction>

In 1900, a thief auctioned off a modern art painting that he stole from the future and thought would make a fortune from it. However, the auction becomes a mess due to the people who argue different reasons of why this art is so expensive.

Ku Younhyun <Society>

In order to solve social problems like economic inequality and corruption caused by the sudden British industrial revolution in the 1900s, James, a young British scientist, time-travels into the distant future to find a solution. But he feels lost, when he sees a future no different from England in the 1900s.

Song Joori <Incheon International Gate>

A time traveler from the future passed the teleportation technology to the people in Choseon dynasty. People in 1900’s Incheon are able to travel through time and space but still maintain their lifestyle like wearing hanbok (traditional clothing), having a chat at Jumak (tavern), and living in hanok (traditional housing). The only difference is that they learned to embrace the world faster.

Yu Hayeong <Old street>

A peddler and a scholar came to the old streets of Incheon in the future while carrying strange objects.

Cho Hyoung Joon <Incheon District 12>

In Incheon, which is only consisted with eight areas, the world’s largest futuristic city is to be built. Due to the 10-year construction period, the government had to provide temporary shelter for illegal immigrants. 12 nuclear-powered ships abandoned near the coast become their living space.

(Laura) Changxin Wu <A Fortuitous Arrival>

My submission ‘A Fortuitous Arrival’ portrays a sharp dichotomy between the antiquity of the time traveler and the futurism of a rapidly advancing Incheon. The key objective behind this piece is to visualize both Incheon, a technologically-driven metropolis, and the amalgamation of cultural legacy with progression in a 2077 atmosphere.

Joseph Reuben Conway <Time travel and outbreak>

A scientist from the year 2077 time leaps back to the past to gather first-hand intelligence on the cholera outbreak of 1853 in London and to help guide further understandings in anesthetics and epidemiology. He has to wear a high tech hazmat suit to protect people in old London from deadly super viruses and bugs that could wipe them all out.

Amy Bui <Komyunitown>

A time traveler from 1900AD that arrives in Incheon 2077, where everything has become industrialized, so I decided to create a multi-cultured Asian neighborhood. The theme I have chosen is Neo-Tokyo/ cyberpunk, I took inspiration from Ghost In The Shell, Alita: Battle Angel, and Altered Carbon.

Joseph Reuben Conway <Time Warp>

In the year 2077, a scientist from London 1890 finds himself time-warped into a stream of reality where Incheon is a cyberpunk city with towering buildings and fluorescent lights. What will he do to survive in this new alternate and futuristic reality?

Joshua Unwin <Causality 2077>

A traveler from the year 1900 battles with the totalitarian police force of the dystopian imagining of Incheon in the year 2077. In the style of Neo-Tokyo, I have re-imagined the city streets of Incheon, and created a dystopian world in which the traveler from 1900 has no hope, as he battles the police force of 2077.

Kim Ngan Nguyen <Lost in the Light>

A Korean patriotic scholar who was a part of the resistants against the Japanese colonial government in 1931 AD, fell down to a mystery hole while running away from his enemies. When he awakened, he found himself in an alley of Incheon City in the future. Confused and terrified with all the strange buildings, lights, and people in different clothes and devices, he intends to blend in and figure out how to get away from this madness.

Nicholas Rowsby <A Cut in the time-line>

The setting is both 1900 and 2077 Wellington, New Zealand (by the parliament buildings) with rising sea level and technological developments where the government is overrun by a tyrant. He tries to eliminate the hairlines of all citizens. A hopeful boy escapes via a reality altering time machine modelled as a pair of scissors to the year 1900, to save the future and everyone’s hair.

Nik Scarr <This Mortal Coil>

On May 14, 1900, a precocious young Serbian inventor named Mileva Petrovic finally succeeded in creating her own time machine. In her maiden voyage, she mistakenly transported her Tesla coil-powered craft forward to the year of 2077. She arrived in a unique community deep beneath the soaring metropolis of New Incheon, where old Korean traditional architectures and future technology are harmoniously combined.