Acknowledgement

The Secret Societies has been a team effort composed with talented individuals situated in more than 8 cities across 3 continents.

Therefore, we would like to thank everyone involved in this project throughout the last 14 months of discussion, design, preparation, and fabrication.

First, we would like to thank the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism and the Municipal Government of Seoul to give naïvepeople.design the opportunity to take part in this international event.

We also want to express our gratitude to the Design Trust in Hong Kong and the University of Toronto John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design for their generous support and their overall belief in young talents like ourselves.

We want to thank our initial design team which included the brillant minds of Abubakr Bajaman and Mariya Krasteva for helping us win this project in the midst of a global pandemic.

We also want to thank our team in Seoul including the organizational talent of our manager Yena Ku and the magical hands of our builder Sungjin Jang for their valiant effort throughout the past three months on site.

We also would like to show appreciation for our UX Designer Tinnei Pang who has been an inspiration in teaching us about the digitalization of an architectural idea.

Additionally, there were many mentors and peers that were involved in innumerable late night conversations that have helped to shape the Secret Socieites identity. We want to thus thank Ericka Song, Danna Lei, Duc Anh (Ace) Nguyen, José Nuno Oliveira Fernandes and Peter Sealy.

Lastly, Secret Societies is the result of a fruitful collaboration between Yi Ran Weng and Felix Chun Lam, two classmates, two friends, and mostly importantly, two design partners who are proudly presenting to you the second built project of their joint effort naïvepeople.design at the beginning of their young career.

Yours truly,
Yi Ran Weng & Felix Chun Lam