INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

Kookmin University industrial design students (team name: Woori Yard) won the Social Problem Solving Award in the name of the Seoul Metropolitan Government Mayor at the 2021 [Human City Design University Workshop Forum] held at Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) in Seoul on December 3 (Fri) has been awarded.

The Human City Design University Student Workshop is a workshop hosted by Seoul Metropolitan Government and co-hosted by the Seoul Design Foundation and the Korea Design Society.

A total of 31 teams (26 domestic and 5 overseas) were selected for this workshop, which was supported from all over the world, and the workshops were held for a total of 3 months from July to October. All teams presented their workshop results at the 2021 Korean Design Society held in November. 

The "Wooritteul" team, consisting of five students (Kim Yun-ho, Kim Tae-hyuk, Min Joon-young, Ryu Hae-chan, Jeong Hae-chan, and advisor: Kwon Hyo-sun), paid attention to abandoned small spaces due to dark and low utilization like underground roads and overpasses that exist throughout the city.

It proposed a design of public facilities that applied smart farm technology suitable for the cultivation and harvest of small crops such as salads in such a small space and showed a scenario of providing citizens with a small garden in the city center.

In particular, in order to produce a life-size model and show the usage scenario, it was installed directly under the overpass to conduct interviews with citizens and verify its feasibility.

The Wooritteul team achieved encouraging results in winning the Seoul Special Mayor Award, which is given to two of the 31 teams. 

Professor Kwon Hyosun said, "Students have defined very novel design issues on their own and completed all design processes, including research and discussion, design proposals, production, and verification, with great teamwork. I think this is the result of constant research and trial and error for students to find a better solution," she said.