HYUNJUNG KIM

Hyunjung Kim is a lecturer at the Design-Led X Platform at the Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo. She has designed and experimented with cutting-edge interactive products and installations that explore the future of everyday life. Currently, she focuses on Treasure Hunting Projects, which aim to foster collaboration with scientists and engineers at U-Tokyo, exploring the design possibilities of their knowledge and technology in everyday life.



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HYUNJUNG KIM

Hyunjung Kim is a designer, researcher, and educator. She designs and experiments with interactive products and installations that explore the future of everyday life. Currently, she serves as a project researcher at the DLX Design Lab, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, where she undertakes innovative science and design collaboration projects.



︎ hyunjung@designlab.ac
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TALKING WITH NEURONS

An interactive installation that enables people to remotely connect with live neural tissues that mimic our nervous system, showcased at SIGGRAPH 2023 Art Gallery and presented at SPARKS (Sep 2023).

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2022-2024



TIDAL SPACE

An interactive kinetic installation designed for work-at-home parents, featured at Dutch Design Week 2021, Seoul Design Festival 2021, and SIGGRAPH Asia 2022 E-Tech.

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2021-2022



ISLE OF REFLECTIONS

An online interactive lighting installation that uses Zoom as a unique platform for showcasing and experiencing interactive art. It was showcased at the SIGGRAPH 2021 Art Gallery and won the Red Dot Award: Design Concept 2021 “Best of the Best”.

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2021




MOLECULIGHTS

A modular lighting system that uses Steinmetz solid modules, which create decorative light patterns when connected by rings, won the 2020 Busan International Design Award.

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2020




FACT vs. FICTION

A dual-view sculpture, composed of 115 origami rhombic pyramid tiles, emphasizes the role of perspective in distinguishing fact from fiction online. It was showcased at #SpreadingFacts 2019.

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2019




KINETIC TILES

Modular construction units designed for kinetic animations. Similar to assembling a tile mosaic, users can piece together Kinetic Tiles to craft kinetic patterns, texts, or icons. The project was presented at ACM CHI 2011.

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2011




SHADE PIXEL

A physical display uses deformable skin to depict information through the shading of concave pixels. It won the iF Concept Design Award in 2012.

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2008-2009


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