Kookmin University’s Song Maengru Publishes Paper in SCIE International Journal

Research Achievement from the Graduate School of Techno Design

Kookmin University announced on October 2 that Song Maengru, a doctoral student in the Department of Spatial and Cultural Design at the Graduate School of Techno Design, has published a paper in the SCIE journal 'Frontiers in Environmental Science.'

Song Maengru, student at the Graduate School of Techno Design, Kookmin University. Kookmin University

The title of the paper is "The Sustainability of Traditional Chinese Villages: A Perspective from the Production of Space."

Frontiers in Environmental Science is an international academic journal in the field of environmental science, indexed in major databases such as SCIE (Web of Science) and DOAJ. It covers a wide range of research topics in spatial and environmental studies, including social-ecological urban systems, ecosystem restoration, environmental systems engineering, and artificial intelligence and the environment.

This research goes beyond the protection and preservation of traditional villages as cultural heritage, presenting their characteristics as 'local placeness, experiential narrativity, collective practice, resilient regeneration, cultural symbolism, and shared connectivity' from the perspective that traditional villages are products of the interaction among social, economic, cultural, and power structures. Using this as an analytical framework, the study conducted empirical spatial analysis of representative traditional villages in Anhui, Sichuan, Fujian, and Shanxi provinces in China, and proposed strategies for sustainable development.

Kim Jieun, a professor in the Department of Spatial Design who supervised the research, stated, "This study is significant because it looks beyond the physical dimension of the spatial environment of traditional villages and explores how people's lived experiences are continuously generated in space as a product of social relationships with cultural meaning."

Song Maengru commented, "Through research on the sustainability of traditional villages, I aimed to propose new theoretical and practical pathways. I also plan to further deepen and expand my doctoral dissertation based on these research achievements."

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