Docent Not Needed, Art Speaks for Itself ... UNIST Holds Graduation Exhibition

UNIST Department of Design Graduation Exhibition 'Design Show 2020' Held
From the 13th to 17th at the 2nd Engineering Building... Online Special Lectures Also Available
Under the Theme 'Our Turning Point,' Undergraduate and Graduate Works Exhibition

Students participating in the UNIST Department of Design's graduation exhibition, 'Design Show UNIST 2020'.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] For design major students, the ‘Graduation Exhibition’ signals a new beginning. While campus memories come to an end, the ‘Graduation Exhibition’ also serves as a turning point to step into a new professional world. This year, it draws attention as it is held in a with-COVID format, either without docents or with online QR code entry.

The Department of Design at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST, President Lee Yong-hoon) will hold ‘Design Show UNIST 2020’ from the 13th to the 17th for five days at the Design Showroom on the first floor of the Second Engineering Building.

A total of 12 participants, including 10 graduating undergraduate students and 2 alumni, will exhibit their graduation works at this design show.

The theme of the design show is set as ‘Transition: The Starting Point of New Change.’ The theme reflects the meaning that students who studied design are stepping out of school to face the first beginning of life’s transitions and changes.

The exhibition showcases creative solutions attempting changes in daily life through design.

These include an indoor mobility device with a simple and new operation method, a fidget toy that can be used as an object, and a wall-mounted air purifier optimized for each user.

Also, unlike previous design shows that focused on product design, this year digital service design works are introduced.

The featured works include a digital service supporting vegetarianism, a mobile community for people suffering from acne, and designs aimed at improving bus services in Ulsan.

Students Kwak Yoon-jung and Lee Da-bin, who are representatives of this graduation exhibition, said, “We hope it becomes a joyful and precious memory for the classmates and seniors who prepared the graduation exhibition together.”

Various speaker seminars are also prepared during the design show period.

On the 13th, Jussi Hurskainen, CEO of Idis Design, which designed the trams in Helsinki, Finland, will give a lecture, and on the 16th, Park Sun-hwa, a visual designer from Fjord, the world’s largest digital design consultancy, will present.

On the last day of the exhibition, the 17th, Jo Kyu-hyung, co-founder of Studio Word, active in both graphic design and furniture, will conduct a seminar.

The speakers’ seminars, held via video conference, are open to anyone who can participate through the QR codes on the posters.

Professor Lee Seung-ho, who supported the design show, said, “In an era where the ability to ask good questions is more important than the amount of knowledge one has, I send encouragement and support to students who create difficult questions themselves and find good answers.”

This design show is held without docents to prevent infectious diseases, with only the artworks on display.

Visitors to the exhibition hall can enter by following quarantine guidelines. From the 13th, the exhibition works can be viewed through a webpage. It will also record past graduation exhibition works, and on December 24, a ‘Design Chronicle 2020’ documenting the production process of the works participating in this exhibition will be released.

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.