Learning from
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Suncheon Maesandeung
Suncheon Maesandeung is a modern cultural heritage area in South Korea, shaped by missionary settlements, schools, hospitals, alleys, houses, and everyday life that has built up over time.
The 2026 International Field Workshop will focus on documenting this living heritage, not only as buildings and sites, but as stories carried by people, memories, movements, and daily practices.
About the Workshop
As one of the experts of the workshop, Leewardists will conduct sessions on how Comics and Illustrations can become tools to observe, document, and communicate living heritage.
Participants will learn how to read a place through its people, streets, vacant/abandoned houses, public spaces, conversations, and cultural layers, and translate these observations into visual narratives.
The workshop will encourage students to look beyond conventional documentation and use comics as a way to capture context, atmosphere, lived experiences, and local relationships with place. Through field visits, mapping, conversations, writing, drawing, and storytelling, participants will explore how heritage can be understood as something living, shared, and still evolving.
Recognised by UNESCO
Our previous workshop in Mokpo South Korea in collaboration with Dr. Tei Youngsoon Choi, Dr. Ritu Deshmukh was recognized by the UNESCO South Korea as a tool to document urban precincts.
Who Conducts the Workshops
The workshop will be conducted by Ar. Anuj Kale and Ar. Shreya Khandekar, comic writers and partners at Leewardists - a communication practice built around cities and built environment. They have previously conducted similar workshops in Paris, Kolkata, Mumbai, Mokpo and Dhaka.
This workshop is in collaboration with Ker Ker Field by Dr. Tei Youngsoon Choi.
Ar. Shreya Khandekar and Ar. Anuj Kale
Dr. Tei Youngsoon Choi
What is Included
Workshop Fees -
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30,000 INR for Indian Students
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35,000 INR for Indian Professionals
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450 USD for foreign students
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550 USD for foreign professionals
Meals, Local transport and Stay during the period of the workshop is included.
Not Included-
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Flight to South Korea
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Airport transfers
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Visa fees*
Student/Professional Identity is mandatory to participate
*For Visa support, an invitation document will be sent for your documentation
How to Participate
This workshop is only open to 10 individuals.
To participate, please fill the form below and we will get back to you with workshop details, reading resources, schedule and program road map.
Last Date to Apply: July 10th, 2026
Workshop Themes
Living Heritage and People
Understanding heritage through residents, memories, everyday routines, stories, and the changing life of the neighbourhood.
Comics as tool of Documentation
Using sequential art, drawing, characters, conversations, and visual notes to document spaces, people, and cultural practices.
Illustrating Context
Looking closely at alleys, houses, materials, public spaces, vacant structures, and small details that reveal how a place works.
From Observing to Storytelling
Turning field research into accessible visual narratives that can communicate heritage to wider audiences.
Expected Outcomes
Participants will develop visual stories, comics, illustrated maps, or documentation pieces based on their observations of Suncheon Maesandeung.
The focus will be on creating work that does not simply record a place, but communicates its living layers, people, histories, and future possibilities.
Workshop Schedule
The larger workshop is planned from 28 August to 6 September, 2026 in the Maesandeung area of Suncheon-si, with participants from Korea, India, and France.
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