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CV

Hayoun Won

hayounwon@konkuk.ac.kr

www.hayounwon.com

Education

  • Doctor of Design, Seoul National University, 2017

  • Master in Design Studies – Art, Design and the Public Domain, 

       Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2013

  • Master of Fine Arts in Design, Seoul National University, 2009

  • Bachelor of Fine Arts in Design, Seoul National University, 2007

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Professional Experience

  • Co-founder, Mirror-Mirror, a joint project in London, Paris, and Seoul, 

  • 2022-present (Design Consulting)

  • Founder, Futuring Company, Seoul, 2019 – present

  • Coordinator, the Korea exhibition, “Vitality, Beyond Craft and Design”, Saint-Etienne International Design Biennale, Saint-Etienne, France, 2015

  • Designer, MIT Media Lab, MA, 2011-2013

  • Designer, Samsung Information Systems America, Innovation Lab, San Jose, 2012

  • Visiting Researcher, Samsung Trend Research Center Milan, Milan, 2009

  • Exhibition Director – Sight Insight -Reinterpretation of Korean Traditional Culture, KDRI

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Fellowship

  • Commendation, Harvard GSD, 2013

  • Harvard Academic Fellowship, 2011-2013

  • Hi-Seoul Fellowship, Korea, 2010

  • Commendation from the President of Seoul National University, 2006

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Awards

  • Nominated Recommended Designer, Harvard GSD Kirkland Gallery, 2022

  • Print Magazine, Moments of Silence for the Missing, 2020

  • ArchDaily, Future Designs: Commemorate & Image, 2020

  • Wall Street International Magazine, Future designs. Commemorate & imagine, 2020

  • Harvard GSD News, Moments of Silence for the Missing, 2020

  • Saint-Etienne, “Waterfall” Cover image of the Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne, ELLE magazine, France, 2015

  • Selected as Recommended Designer, Best Digital Designer Exhibition, Korea, 2015

  • Harvard Art Show Prize of Distinction in Mixed Media, Harvard, Cambridge, 2012

  • Grand Prize, Harvard IEL Dean's Essay Contest Award, Cambridge, 2011

  • Best Exhibit Awards, Korean Design & Art International Exhibition, Korea, 2010

  • Finalist, JAD International Design Competition, Korea, 2008

  • Selected as the 2008 Next Generation Design Leader, Korea, 2008

  • Registered Recommended Designer, Korea Design Promotion, Korea​, 2007

  • Presidential Honor Awarded, 42nd Annual Korea Design Exhibition, Korea, 2007

  • Best of the Best Award, Cooperation Research Future Design Concept Design Awards, LG Electronics and Seoul National University, Korea, 2007

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Teaching Experience

  • Assistant Professor, Industrial Design Department, Konkuk University, 2023 

  • Lecturer, Design Department, Seoul National University, Sep. 2019 - 2023

  • BK 21 Professor, Kookmin University Graduate School of Techno Design, 2014-2015

  • Lecturer, Yonsei University Underwood, Korea, Fall 2014

  • Lecturer, Sejong University, Seoul, Korea, 2014

  • Lecturer, Sungshin Women's University, Seoul, Korea, Spring 2014

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Projects

  • “Research Project”, Seoul National University, 2023- present

  • “Research on developing new materials using sustainable materials”, Korea, 2022

  • “Development of an interface diagram between metaverse and physical space”, Mirror-mirror company, Boston, 2022

  • “Digital projections and digital arts planning for communicating with the public”, New York Blank Space, New York, 2021

  • Research on design diversification, classification criteria and evolution analysis: design model development, Seoul, 2017-2020

  • “Light furniture design & 3d printing project”, Seoul, and France, 2015

  • Meaning of beauty: furniture development and exhibition planning with a focus on modernizing traditional Korean furniture aesthetic, France, 2014-2015 

  • Completion of CXD (Craft by Design) program, Development of the convergence between modern design and Korean traditional crafts, Kookmin University, 2014

  • Proposal for an exhibition plan for the 130th anniversary of diplomatic ties between Korea and France, “The Year of Korea in France” (Korea Institute of Oriental Culture), 2014

  • Research project: “Modern Spatial Design using digital projection mapping”, 2014

  • “Sensing Radiation Social Design and Research Project”, Harvard GSD, 2013

  • “Design By Committee. Digital interfaces for collaborative and participatory design Project”, Harvard GSD, 2012

  • “Pandora, Design without boundaries' project", Venice, VEGA, MIT Media Lab, 2012

  • “Twitter Sentiment Analysis and Design Application”, MIT Media Lab, 2012

  • “New Paradigms for Human Computer Interaction project”, MIT Media Lab, 2012

  • “Development of mobile app design for automatic management of contact information according to user schedule – Don’t Interrupt me”, 2012

  • “Tele-gesture” project - Tangible Interfaces, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, 2012 

  • “New tangible interface and conceptual model project”, Tangible Interface Lab, 2012

  • “Future Mobile Devices UX Design” project, Samsung Silicon Valley (SISA), San Jose, 2012

  • “Future Mobile Visual Scenarios, Storyboards & Wireframe project”, Innovation Lab, Samsung Electronics Silicon Valley, San Jose, CA

  • “Leading the design firm”, program completion, Harvard Business School Associate Program, MA, 2012

  • “Case Studies in Critical Conservation: Architecture and Urban Design”Harvard GSD, MA,2012

  • “Interrogative Design: Animating Monuments”, Research Project, MA,2011 

  • “Resilience in the City, Conservation Canons and Institutions” Research Project, Harvard GSD, MA,2011

  • Harvard Art Show Mixed Media Project, MA, 2011

  • Seoul National University Graduate School - Seminar in Urban and Environmental Policy (Sustainable development and green growth) Course Completion, Seoul, 2009

  • Seoul National University Graduate School - Art Planning Seminar Course Completion, Seoul, 2009

  • “Exhibition Methods in Color Museums using Color Experience Bridging the Gap between the Public and the Realm of Design”, Seoul, 2010

  • “Research on the multidimensional expression and utilization of color image language applied to children's museums”, Seoul, 2010

  • “Sustainability and Ecology: Trend based Mobile CMF design concept and analysis”, Samsung Milan Design, Milan, 2009

  • “Comparative analysis and difference study of digital devices based on European and Korean culture in terms of CMF and UX Design”, Samsung Milan Design, Milan, 2009 

  • “Planning, color curating, conceptual design of Daegu Color Museum experience center”, Seoul National University Art & Design Institute, Seoul & Daegu, 2008

  • “Planning and spatial development of smart infrastructure in Hallyu Wood Cultural Park space”, Seoul, 2007

  • “Public Design Clinic”, Research Assistant, Seoul, 2007

  • “Project art project for modernizing crafts using Korean traditional culture”, Seoul, 2007

  • “LG future kitchen lifestyle research concept proposal and development”, Seoul, 2007

Publications

  • H.Y. Won, Y.M. Park*, “Implementation of Typology Criteria for Design Knowledge Reflecting Design Diversification”, The Design Journal, 385-403, 2021 (A-HCI)

  • H.Y. Won*, “Designs for Sensing Radiation”, Archives of Design Research 134, Vol.33 No.2, 21-35, 2020 (SCOPUS)

  • H.Y. Won*, “The Design Implications of Electromagnetic Convergence Design Through the Development of Prototypes and User Observations”, The Korean Society of Science & Art, Vol.38 No.1, 129-141, 2020 (KCI)

  • H.Y. Won*, “A Study on the Projection Installation Convergence Design based on the logic of Sensation of Gilles Deleuze – with a Focus on Analyizing the works of Kryzysztof Wodiczko”, The Korean Society of Science & Art, Vol.37 No.5, 227-238, 2020 (KCI)

  • H.Y. Won* “Case study of Convergence Design using Projection Media studies”, The Korean Society of Art and Media, vol. 2.(14), 2015 (KCI)

  • H.Y. Won* “Gesture Communication: Collaborative and Participatory Design in a New Type of Digital Communication”, KOREA SCIENCE & ART FORUM (20) , 2015 (KCI)

  • H.Y. Won* “Study on the Convergence Principle in Space Design using Digital Projection Mapping”, Journal of Korea Design Knowledge (34), 2015(KCI)

  • H.Y. Won*, “The Mobile Application Development and Design for Automatic Incoming bell Managing System depends on User Schedule”, Korea Digital Design Council vol. 47, 15(3), 2015 (KCI)

  • J.W. Lee, H.Y. Won, K. R. Choi, D.S. Chung, “A study on the influence of group emotional intelligence by datamining of SNS Big data on group creativity in design team organization”, Korea Digital Design Council vol. 47, 15(3), 2015 (KCI)

  • S. Lee, K. H. Chun, H.Y. Won, K. R. Choi, “Analyses on the case study of living furniture design on the bases of loT”, Korea Digital Design Council vol. 47, 15(3) , 2015 (KCI)

  • Michele Vianello, and co-workers (MIT lab members and H.Y. Won) “Pandora, a Living Organism in Marghera - Design without boundaries' project", Sustainable City section of Ecomondo, The 15th International Trade Fair of Material & Energy Recovery and Sustainable Development, Rimini, Italy, 2012

  • Books: Edited by Y.G. Kwon, Co-author (H.Y. Won and co-researchers) “The Language for Space Design,” Nalmada, Korea, 2010

  • H.Y. Won*, J.W.Chae, and Y.G.Kwon, “Exhibition Method in Color Museums, Using Color Experience     to Bridging the Gap Between the Public and the Realm of design,” The Korean Society of Design Science, vol. 1., 2009 (KCI)

  • H.Y. Won*, J.W.Chae, and Y.G.Kwon, “The Study on the Design Process for Establishing a Museum that Bridges the Gap between the Public and the Realm of Design Emerging Trends in Design Research”, The Design Conference of ISDAR, Hong Kong, 2007

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Exhibitions

  • "Retrospective", Harvard Kirkland Gallery Exhibition, June -Sep 2022

  • "Pandora Tree", Recommended Designer in the 51st Korea Design Exhibition, Seoul, Korea, 2021

  •  “FUTURE DESIGNS - COMMEMORATE & IMAGINE”, Solo Exhibition, Blank Space, June 4 - July 5, New York, 2020

  • "Pandora Tree", the 51st Korea Design Exhibition, Recommended designer, 2016

  • “Expanded boundary: Inside and Outside”, 2015 KSBDA International Invitational Exhibition, Japan, 2015

  • “Sharing of Social Disclosure”, Summer International Design Exhibition – Design for Sharing, University of Bridgeport, 2015

  • “Integration”, International Spring Invitational Exhibition, Kookmin University, 2015

  • “Pandora Tree: Projection manipulation based on eco-friendly sensors”, Kookmin University, 2015

  • “Social Change”, Digital Designer Invited International Exhibition, Seoul, 2015

  • “Seeking the truth”, International Fall Invitational Exhibition, Seoul, 2014

  • “Social Design: Sensing Radiation”, Harvard Gund Hall, 2013

  • “Storyboards, wireframes for prototypes”, SISA, San Jose, CA, 2012

  • “Last Supper" Harvard Art Show Prize, Cambridge, MA, 2012

  • “Obsession”, Harvard Art Show Prize, Cambridge, MA, 2012

  • “Growing Tree”, “Sentiment Analysis”, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 2011

  • “Animated monument” installation, Harvard Widner Library, Cambridge, MA, 2011

  • “Inside-outside project”, Gund Hall Gallery, Harvard, Cambridge, MA, 2011

  • “Aesthetics of Space”, Gallery E-Ang, 2010

  • “Reinterpretation Space of Traditional Folk”, The Korean Industrial Artists’ Association Membership Exhibition, Seoul, 2010

  • “The Wings of Light”, International Invited Exhibition, Japan Society of Basic Design and Art, Osaka, Japan, 2008 

  • “Hayoun Won”, Solo-Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan, 2010 

  • “Wrote Poems the Space”, Sight Insight, Samwon S&D Hall,2008

  • “Tradition: Consecutive Showing of Space”, Sight Insight, Samwon S&D Hall,2007  

  • “Metamorphic Dimensional Space”, Asia Pacific Design Society, 2007

  • “Symbolism- Vision of Traditional Value”, Visual Design course work Exhibition, SAMWON S&D Hall, 2007 

  • “The Phenomenal Space”, International Fall Exhibition, Korea Society Basic Design Association, Seoul, 2007

  • “Symbiosis”, Korea Design Exhibition, 2007

  • “Observing, Listening and Touching”, International Koizumi Furniture Fair, 2006

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