Under the title “'Welcome to the Vertical Village'”, this exhibition explores the rapid urban transformation of East Asia and the positive qualities of urban villages. It proposes a much denser, vertical approach to development as a radical alternative to the monotonous block architecture of identical apartment units, and their consequences for the city. The exhibition consists of analytical research, various movies, a documentary and animations, two software packages and a 3 meter tall sculpture of a possible Vertical Village developed by MVRDV and The Why Factory.

Equal Books Publishers Seoul published the Korean edition of ‘the Vertical Village’ catalogue, which added to and updated the English and Chinese edition. The book contains the extensive research made comprehensible with countless colour illustrations. It features detailed case studies for Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei, Djakarta, Tokyo and Bangkok, interviews with Winy Maas, Alfredo Brillemburg and Hubert Klumpner, Lieven De Cauter, Peter Trummer and many others.