The Department of Industrial Design at the College of Art and Design at Kookmin University (President Jeong Seung-ryeol) held a workshop called “ID_WEEK” from Monday, March 24 to Friday, March 28, with about 190 students from all grades participating. This workshop consisted of programs such as the “Exploration of Art” project, the “Exploration of Structure” project, and a special lecture by alumni.

The Formative Exploration Project is a project in which teams discover, interpret, and form motifs of formative art through field research in 25 administrative districts of Seoul. It was conducted with the aim of experiencing the differentiated perspective and the importance of discovering new data that are necessary in the AI era. The Structure Exploration Project was designed to help students understand the principles of structure through prototyping with spaghetti noodles at a rapid pace, while also strengthening the bonds between members of the Industrial Design Department, which will celebrate its 50th anniversary next year. During the workshop, students completed a map of Seoul by freely planning the program schedule for each team.

The students who participated in the project said, “Just doing a department project instead of a major class was a new breath of life in school life, and it helped us communicate more actively with other students, which made us feel more a part of the school.” They also said, “Through the new project, we felt a freshness and satisfaction that we couldn't feel in the existing one-way classes.”

NAM, WONSUK, the head professor of the Department of Industrial Design, said, “The Department of Industrial Design aims to train competent design planners who can recognize problems from a macro design perspective and solve them in a rational and innovative way, and is trying various forms of education through industry-academia cooperation with leading companies at home and abroad.”

Meanwhile, the College of Art and Design at Kookmin University is actively improving its infrastructure to support students by installing LED signage and building separate open self-study spaces to increase the diversity of students' visual thinking and make it easier and more efficient for students to express their imagination than in existing classrooms.