Duksung Women's University Successfully Concludes "2025 Doltopje: Weaving 'Us' of 'Ui'"

A Festival Connecting Tradition and Community Spirit

Duksung Women's University announced on October 27 that it held the 3rd Doltopje public art project, titled "2025 Doltopje: Weaving 'Us' of 'Ui'."

The Doltopje Planning Group Mirak (美Rock), composed of graduate and undergraduate students majoring in Art History, is taking a commemorative photo. (From the top left clockwise) Juyoung Ko, Heeju Park, Seoyeon Bae, Shihyun Lee, Minseo Hwang, Jiyoung Paeng, Minjoo Jeon, Yewon Kim, Chaehyun Lee, Kyungmin Hwang, Eunyeong Lee, Sujin Jung. Duksung Women's University

This year's Doltopje was organized by "Mirak (美Rock)," a joint project team of undergraduate and graduate students majoring in Art History at Duksung Women's University, and hosted by the Institute of Art Convergence Contents. The event took place on October 15 and 16 along the banks of the Ui Stream in front of the university's main gate.

The event was designed as an opportunity to reconsider the meaning of "us" by connecting the local community and the arts. The theme for this year, "Weaving 'Us' of 'Ui'," reflects the hope that, in an era rife with hatred and exclusion of differences, people can acknowledge and understand each other's differences and become "us."

To visualize this message through the act of "connection," students led a participatory art activity in which small pieces of fabric were threaded together to create brooches. Approximately 200 students, professors, staff, and local residents participated in the activity.

The completed brooches serve as monuments symbolizing each group's sense of "us," embodying the hope that the empathy and solidarity formed during the event will continue beyond it.

Chaehyun Lee and Yewon Kim of "Mirak," who planned this project, said, "This year's Doltopje was especially meaningful because it shifted from 'stacking' to 'weaving.' Through art, we wanted to express our belief that although we are different, we can be woven together."

Professor Suhee Jeong, Director of the Institute of Art Convergence Contents at Duksung Women's University, stated, "The Doltopje has been able to continue for three years thanks to the students' voluntary planning and the participation of the local community. This year, under the theme of 'connection,' we aimed to more deeply showcase the public value of art and the sense of community."

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