Finding Human:
Recapturing Experience Values to
Envision Post-COVID Futures
Collaborative project by Yihyun and D.Fluence,
with student researchers from MIT Civic Design Intiative
Part of WTA What is to be Asked - Open Call for Collaborative Research and Proposal
To be exhibited at Seoul Hall of Architecture & Urbanism
(2020 - ongoing)
Experience-value map by Yihyun Lim/ D.Fluence
What experiential values can we observe from our collective pandemic situation, and how might we leverage these values to envision our post-COVID futures?
The COVID19 pandemic has affected the lives of global community in unprecedented ways. From shelter-in-place, quarantines, to new protocols around physical contacts, these changes will continue to impact our way of life in the post-pandemic era.
I started this research project with student collaborators at MIT Civic Design Initiative to study the changing behaviors and perceptions of people due to the current pandemic situation. Following the initial research, with D.Fluence, we’re applying this insight to speculate value-driven future visions.
Four speculative future visions developed from this project will be exhibited at Seoul Hall of Architecture and Urbanism in February 2021.
Discussion on experience-values found from the ‘new normal’ research
Hosted by Seoul Hall of Architecture and Urbanism, we invited experts from design and humanities field (urban planning, architecture, anthropology, sociology) to discuss our research findings.
Watch the first fifteen minutes to learn more about the research and our initial findings.
Panel:
HongJung Kim Department of Sociology, Seoul National University
Dina El-Zanfaly Carnegie Mellon University- School of Design
Scott Penman Design Technologist at Sasaki Associates, Boston
Kamala Russell Dept of Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Youngjun Kim Dept of Urban Planning and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago