The Arumjigi Foundation is a non-profit organization established in November 2001, dedicated to creatively preserving and passing down Korea’s traditional culture. Its mission is to rediscover the identity of Korean culture and cultivate new cultural heritage for future generations. Through efforts to care for Korea’s traditional cultural heritage and its surrounding environments, Arumjigi seeks to ensure that the values of tradition remain alive in modern life across clothing, food, and shelter. Arumjigi engages in a wide range of activities, such as maintaining the environments of Changdeokgung Palace and Jongmyo Shrine, beautifying the surroundings of old trees, designing signage for the Four Royal Palaces and Jongmyo Shrine, as well as for Haeinsa Temple, Hahoe Village, and Yangdong Village. It also hosts programs like the Arumjigi Academy, world heritage tours, special exhibitions, traditional music performances in hanok (traditional Korean houses), and research into traditional lifestyles. By operating hanok in Anguk-dong, Seoul, and Hamyang, Gyeongsangnam-do, Arumjigi enhances the value of hanok and explores innovative ways to utilize them. Moving forward, the foundation aims to explore the essence of Korean culture that connects the past, present, and future, setting exemplary cases for the modern inheritance of tradition.
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A designer and freelance curator, founder of the international design agency “hw.d”, which he led for 20 years. Over the course of his career, he has worked with various institutions, companies, brands, and designers on-site, while also publishing a magazine focused on new design cultures. He has curated exhibitions at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne and the Cobra Museum in Amsterdam. Currently, he resides in Munich, Germany.
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Andrew Haslam
Following an undergraduate degree in Graphic Information Design and a postgraduate teaching qualification, he completed a postgraduate degree at the Royal College of Art. He worked for the Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (Netherlands Broadcasting Service) and later for Sebastian Conran Associates before co-founding a studio in East London with Russel Warren-Fisher and Hannah Tofts. He authored and designed a series of 32 non-fiction children’s books covering science, history, and geography, which … -
Simon Garfield
Simon Garfield was born in London in 1960. He is the author of an appealingly diverse and unpredictable canon of non-fiction, including the bestsellers Mauve, Just My Type and On The Map. He is a trustee of Mass Observation, and is the editor of several books of diaries from the archive, including Our Hidden Lives and A Notable Woman. His recent books include Timekeepers, In Miniature, and All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia. -
Jeon Nina
She graduated from the Department of Fiber Arts at Ewha Womans University and studied Motion Pictures at Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara, USA. She earned a master’s degree in Computer Art from the Academy of Art University (AAU) in San Francisco and completed a doctoral coursework in Media Design at the Cross Media Creative Lab in the Department of Digital Media at Ewha Womans University. Currently, she serves as a professor in the Department of Visual Design at Kaywon University of Art and … -
Kim Bong-ryol
He graduated from Seoul National University with a bachelor’s degree in architecture and earned a Ph.D. in engineering from the same graduate school, and studied at the AA School of Architecture in the United Kingdom. He has served as a professor and dean of architecture at Korea National University of Arts, and chairman of the Cultural Heritage Committee of the Cultural Heritage Administration. Based on his deep knowledge in the field of ancient architecture, he is working to popularize … -
Renate Menzi
Renate Menzi enjoyed a craft-based design education at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich, which she continued at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem. Having graduated in 1996, she worked as an assistant at the Chair of Visual Design in the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich and studied Theory of Design and Art at the Zurich University of the Arts. Since 2008, she is the curator of the design collection at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich where she teaches, collects, researches and publishes in … -
Lee Kyun-gmin
He studied Visual Communication Design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He was selected as a Next Generation Design Leader by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy (now Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy) and Korea Design Promotion Agency, and has been honored with the International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), iF International Forum Design, UX Design Award, and Red Dot Design Award. He currently works as a UX designer at LG Electronics. At first, I became a UX designer by … -
Choi Min-young
Graduated from the department of industrial design at KAIST, earned a master’s degree in industrial design from the same institution, and completed the doctoral coursework there. With practical experience in product design and interaction design, served as a senior designer at Daewoo Motors and as the head of the research institute at Decos Interactive. Currently, a professor specializing in Interaction Product Design in the Department of Industrial Design at Sungshin Women’s … -
ZERO PER ZERO
ZERO PER ZERO is a design studio founded in Seoul in 2008. We focus on themes of ‘EARTH, TRAVEL, LOVE,’ creating a wide range of graphic designs and illustrations that capture precious moments discovered in travel and everyday life. Initially inspired by themes related to travel, we have since expanded to include warm family portraits, dogs, cats, flowers, and national treasures, continually building our own graphic dictionary. Through our work, we aim to celebrate and share the … -
Roel Klaassen
Roel Klaassen is Programme Manager at Premsela, Dutch Platform for Design and Fashion. Roel is a design enthusiast with an academic background in design, psychology and strategic management. At present he’s working on the People’s Republic of Design programme, a Premsela initiative that aims to stimulate the development of an open design culture. -
John Thackara
John Thackara is a writer, advisor and event producer. For more than thirty years he has traveled the world in a search of stories about the practical steps taken by communities to realise a sustainable future. He writes about these stories online, and in books; he uses them in talks for cities, and business; he also organizes festivals and events that bring the subjects of these stories together. He curated the celebrated Doors of Perception conference for 20 years – first in Amsterdam, later … -
Park Hye-sook
After graduating from the Department of Visual Design at Hongik University’s College of Fine Arts, she received her Master’s degree(M.F.A.) in Fashion Design from the same university’s graduate school. She later completed her Master’s degree(M.F.A.) at the London College of Fashion in England, and her Ph.D. from Kookmin University. She is currently serving as the Dean of the Department of Fashion Design and Branding at Pyeongtaek University, and is active as an executive in several academic …