Living Continuity is a collective inquiry on the challenges and opportunities of working towards spatially just neighbourhoods. Session V looks critically inwards to explore work that challenges the current frontiers of architecture and urbanism. How can praxis enable critical engagement, and what does it reveal around current issues of access, exclusion, precarity and participation in neighbourhood planning? Paulina Yeal Cho examines the Bom Retiro district in Sāo Paulo, Brazil, reflecting on its rich migrant history, how the neighborhood has developed into a Koreatown, and how this relates to the rise of hallyū and Korean soft power.

Paulina Yeal Cho is the daughter of a single Korean migrant mom. She was born in Brazil and spent her youth between São Paulo and Buenos Aires. Paulina graduated from Tsinghua University with a master's degree in Global Affairs and University of Sao Paulo with a bachelor's in Law. She was a researcher on Green Gentrification, Ecological Urbanism, and Capitalization of Nature at Escola da Cidade. Currently, Paulina is working at Systemiq, developing projects that promote a nature-based, people-centered and sustainable approach in the region.