Humanity and Design

Intro: The loss of humanity in our time, and emphasizes the need for communal attitudes towards the future.

'Lucid Dream' is a projection mapping work installed in a 24-metre-long tunnel. This piece creates a dynamic entrance to the 8th Gwangju Design Biennale’s main entrance by enveloping visitors’ bodies in an immersive audio-visual environment.

Human: Connection within a disconnected society through our innate mind - body connections.

'Singing People' is an exhibition of mixed media mapping designs that orient to the human being. In the exhibition, the audience becomes immersed in intuitive humanness through their own bodies. At its center, the body of the audience becomes a subject singing humanity.Through this, 'I' and 'body' directly experience the significance of human-centered design while delivering future messages for people. The audience understands and empathizes with each other through design and also experiences pure immersion in looking into the process of creating a win-win society.

Like so many people in the exhibition, people and people have their own colors. The colors are not fixed and constantly changed to new colors by meeting and mingling with other people. Such changed colors also remain individual and unique. While the countless people and countless people in the exhibition, harmony and songs are all different, the colors of the audience that will be found in them remain as their own. Outside of the world of media mapping, we finally experience a festival of humanity in our community.

Community: Overcomes discrimination and prejudice, and further discusses the coexistence.

The rise of emojis is a fascinating cultural and linguistic phenomenon occurring in digital space. This is a unique communication method today, and it occupies a large part of modern social communication. Kissmiklos presents a variety of pictographic designs that express 13 emotions of human beings.

The facial expressions engraved on large spherical sculptures and a number of runner balls are universal feelings that we often exchange with others in our daily life. Before the advent of the writing age, there were pictographs that relied on pictures to shape the meanings and the design named here as the Emogram is a reversed pictograph that was re-created through the lettering and punctuation marks.

Social: Reconsider the power of human warmth.

LOTUS DOME is a living dome made out of hundreds of ultra-light smart flowers which fold open in response to human heat and light. When approached, the big silver dome lights up and opens its flowers.

Its behaviour moves from soft breathing to dynamic mood when more people interact.The light slowly follows people, creating an interactive play of light and shadow. This dynamic relation between people and technology is what Roosegaarde calls ‘Techno-Poetry’.