During the Hwayeon: Hongyeon-gil residency (Sep 2023 to Jan 2024), we observed rapid gentrification and the growth of cultural infrastructure. However, older residents were largely absent from these emerging cultural routes.

Key Observations

We mapped how younger residents describe Hongyeon-gil—and whether older adults appear in that narrative.

01 | Research Process - Online Survey

We used an online survey to capture local knowledge and how younger residents perceive older adults in Hongyeon-gil.

01 | Older adults were rarely mentioned in how people described Hongyeon-gil.

02 | Hongyeon-gil is remembered through commercial leisure venues.

We were able to find stories of elderly people living in Hongyeongil through offline interviews.

This list outlines the core technologies and design decisions we chose to develop for the first version.

We developed the Silver Bell application using React Native for cross-platform compatibility and ease of use.