RE: COVER

The most commonly used transportation
means in conducting trade in the
marketplace was the pushcart. Although
it has various uses, one of its most
notable functions is carrying simple
cooking devices and ingredients
for selling street food. RE:cover is a
reinterpretation of Korean traditional
markets by focusing on the luring sights
and scents of snacks and dessert piled on
these pushcarts. The pushcarts are cut in
half and linked back together with joints.
These split pushcarts are then set up and
equipped with different ingredients to
provide their own unique services, giving
these once-retired pushcarts a new role
in society that also reflects the past. The
name RE:COVER comes from the first
syllable of the Korean word for these
carts, ‘re’, to create a play on words on the
word ‘recover’, referring to this project’s
mission of bringing these pushcarts back
to life.