Promotion: design pageant Seoul Design returned to town’s Dongdaemun Design Plaza this month with a 10-day programme of exhibitions and occasions, providing a survey of South Korea’s design panorama.
Underneath the theme of Beneficial Life, the occasion aimed to discover how designers and types may also help to forge a sustainable future.
Between 24 October and a couple of November, Seoul Design 2023 introduced 20 completely different programmes, together with exhibitions, the DDP Design Launching Honest, the Seoul Design Convention and a makers market with greater than 300 stalls – the most important within the historical past of the Dongdaemun Design Plaza.
Most notably, the pageant introduced collectively younger designers, makers and corporations, pooling their information to create a spread of revolutionary merchandise.
The outcomes have been on present as a part of the Company + Younger Designer Model Exhibition, which noticed college students from 9 completely different South Korean design faculties paired with 13 completely different firms together with the BMW Korea Future Fund and Korean magnificence big Amorepacific.
Among the many ensuing merchandise was a hair care instrument that works with present hair merchandise, a spread of merchandise constructed from car waste and refill stations for reusable merchandise.
In the meantime, collaborations between designers and small enterprise homeowners have been on present as a part of the DDP Design Launching Honest, that includes 60 completely different merchandise together with an equipment tray that mixes aluminium processing strategies with precision design.
Elsewhere on the Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Japanese architect Shigeru Ban exhibited a model of his catastrophe housing module Paper Log Home, tailored for South Korea’s specific environmental and materials context.
One other challenge that sought to make use of domestically out there supplies is the Zero Waste Pavilion designed by South Korean architect Ehwa Yoo utilizing waste supplies from three native supplies producers – Kujung Maru, Hansol Paper and Hansol House Deco.
Along with the principle pageant hub, greater than 200 venues throughout town together with retailers and cafes participated within the occasion as Seoul Design Spots, in a bid to rework all the metropolis right into a design pageant.
For extra data on Seoul Design, go to the pageant’s web site.
The pictures is by Lee Jemin.
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