INTERDESIGN KOREA 1999
Design for Body and Mind
Soeul (Korea)
June 22 - July 11 1999
Thirty designers from Korea and twenty-one designer from abroad met in Korea to find solutions to a variety of themes. The Interdesign ‘99, organised by the Korean Association of Industrial Designers, explored the possibilities of applying traditional East Asian design paradigm of "Body and Mind Non-Dualism’ to contemporary design practice. The challenge of the workshop was to connect the past to the positive spirit of our age.
Soeul (Korea)
June 22 - July 11 1999
Thirty designers from Korea and twenty-one designer from abroad met in Korea to find solutions to a variety of themes. The Interdesign ‘99, organised by the Korean Association of Industrial Designers, explored the possibilities of applying traditional East Asian design paradigm of "Body and Mind Non-Dualism’ to contemporary design practice. The challenge of the workshop was to connect the past to the positive spirit of our age.
Objectives
- To explore the alternative design paradigm beyond two concepts of modern design theory, Functionalism and Formalism in the light of traditional East Asian approach to design as an inseparable entity of an experiential whole.
- To investigate the possibilities of developing new design language on the basis of "Body and Mind in Oneness".
- To contribute to the humanistic design, giving people an opportunity to cultivate and appreciate their full faculties of both body and mind.
Projects
Communication, Delivering the Emotion
This area of interest saw for the development of an education quality feedback system, a short-range car-to-car communication system, and a family presence indication system.
Education
The goal of this group was to develop a model of design education, allowing for the development of alternative approaches to design education in the twenty-first century. Proposals included:- Better marketing improves politics of design
- Development of local industry needs developed industrial design
- Promotion of inner motivation
- Emphasis on discipline from social activity
- Teaching students the art of communicate ideas
- Providing students with professional, marketable skills
Food
As
a main staple of most countries through history, rice is loved and
widely used. It also lends itself to various cooking methods enabling
the development of various dishes. Using this common ingredient, each
member of the group created a new dish for which each member of the
group also designed plates and utensils needed to serve/eat the food
that was created. Individual creations included: "Volcano Rice", "Fast
Rice", "Heart of Communication", "Bed of Kimbob" to name a few.
Healthcare: Harmonious Healing - The Development of Tools & Space
The
primary focus of this group was to find holistic design approaches by
combining the medical practices of the East and West. The development of
equipment and environment was said to be the first step for a new order
in the field of medicine.
Transportation
The
group had to discuss the general context of daily life in the future.
Various ideas included the "Roller-pole", "Escargo", a means for genuine
sport driving for body and mind, a "Sled-track", and "Oriental running
space".