Begone, the Substance What are our memories composed of today? Most are visual images. We even have a saying: “Seeing is believing.” Moreover, people always wanted to keep what they saw as long as possible. What people have been doing for thousands of years to keep an…
Beyond Design? Invisible Design? ‘Design’, a deformed language that has emerged in the modern Korean society, has no boundaries since it has no target and meaning, and it is obvious that therefore we cannot define what is beyond. Thus, in order to speak about what is…
What Will Become of Design that Goes Beyond? Design needs the independently standing ‘individuals’ who are capable of thinking. This is why I hope that individual decisions and lives be respected even in the near future where a unification of machinery and humanity is…
Our Aging Society and ICT-Chance to Applying Big Data ‘Ms.Kim wakes up in the morning, checks her blood pressure and pulse by finger scanning her smart phone. The data is automatically sent to a healthcare big data platform and analyzed based on the recorded history…
Design and Trend: Recycling Over Brand New The current design trend of urban restoration was introduced naturally as a means of a solution to a problem. The projects in the example could be evaluated as good designs, whereas on the other hand, we have also experienced…
Beyond Design: Widen Your Perspective on ‘Design’ The last thing I would like to mention to my fellow Yonsei University students is to broaden their perspectives on ‘design’ by eliminating the boundaries of the definition of design. I hope my fellow future designers…
Interests I’m not sure if my stories were much relatable. But, I plead for your understanding and agreement for one thing. Your prolonged interests might not necessarily be expressed in your designs at first, but it will have a significant influence on yourself before…
The Tree Frog and Zi Chao of Lu Xun This attitude has a connection to the tree frog who always twisted and turned its perspective towards the world. The situation nowadays is that a certain group of people are dominating and driving the current of the society,…
Numerous academic, scientific, and engineering achievements are considered to be the result of the remarkable technological accomplishment that makes humanity so much more advanced. These achievements have been developing in a way they exclude humanity from themselves…
A Country House and Design After types of professions have been divided into more specific fields, modern design’s role has been defined as more planning than practicing. Production has been allocated for factories, performance for engineering, and design has limited…
Design that Communicates with Users About the exhibition, Eliasson explained that he believes “art is like a mirror, which reflects our inner emotions yet to be expressed in words,” and added “artists only extract such emotions from spectators. What you feel and think…
Triz and Universal Design In the Universal Design seminar, it was assumed that the originally most frequently used TRIZ principles could differ according to the fields they are applied to. Some principles were guided to students as to be more suitable and practical…