Jiho is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, trying to research digital tools’ role in biodesign education at scale.

Academic Background

Jiho has been intervening with Design and Art education background, focusing on tackling environmental, social and global issues. 

He studied Applied Art Education as BFA at Hanyang University in Seoul. During his study, he proposed the “Fast-Act Surgical Mask” design project to improve the medical environment in South Korea, as his degree show. In terms of art education, he designed a social participatory art class as a part of teaching practice, and he wrote a short essay on developing a high school art programme to cultivate global citizenship. 

Lately, Jiho joined the MRes Design Pathway at the Royal College of Art in London. He presented the “Neo-Welling” project, a hypothetical scenario about the adverse side effects of rising mental health disorders in future teleworking environments, with colleagues as a group project of Grand Challenge: Design for Safety. As a part of his dissertation, he tried to challenge environmental issues as an extension of social problems. Hence, he researched to reconsider the vulnerability of human society’s ecological sustainability today by presenting “The next relationship between humans and the natural environment: A symbiotic design concept through seaweed for the marine ecosystem.”

Before joining TU Delft after graduating from RCA, he worked on a design project as a team, “TOW: Treasure of Waste”, a mobile lifestyle application that seeks to promote proper recycling waste disposal with accessible participation and educate the value of re-waste amusingly to youth. The project was submitted to the Educational Social Media category of Ro Plastic Prize 2022 and won a finalist.