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# 날짜/시간: 2024년 11월19일 화요일 16:00~17:00

# 장소: E2 1122호

# 연사:  Prof.  Ji Hyun Lee

# 제목: A New & Potential Public Relations for a City

- Zoom 링크:  https://kaist.zoom.us/j/82591870965  ID:  825 9187 0965

Abstract

What do you think will happen if ideas such as ‘city’ or ‘placemaking’ with such a long history meet cutting-edge technology? When you carefully observe the cases of urban regeneration projects or smart city developments, you will notice two distinct patterns at two extreme ends; One bulldozes a neighboring plot of land next to old city-center and constructs a new city in the form you have probably seen before, and the other, so-called the technology-dependent urban design or ‘Smart City’, integrates all different kinds of equipment, systems, and smart devices into the city planning and believes that all problems can be handled with smartphones. Although this second development pattern is called technology-dependent, it still remains at the level of physical connections. In order to resolve these two problems at extreme ends, we must think about the prospective people who will live in these cities respecting their lifestyles. We also can overcome the limitation of physical proximity via expanding our consideration to virtual proximity such as SNS, etc. Thinking about the lives of people of the era of the metaverse, I carefully suggest a concept of city or placemaking as a complex system embodying both the physical and virtual aspects. The presentations today will cover topics regarding placemaking but approached from the aspect of urban informatics using big data and network theory. We will discuss the methodologies for analyzing the city environments that integrate virtual aspects resolving the issues that rise from physical limitations. Ultimately, these issues can be addressed by understanding the city as a complex system and creating positive public relations by ensuring that the people living in it have happy experiences.

 

Bio 

Ji-Hyun Lee is a Professor at the Graduate School of Culture Technology in KAIST. She received her Ph.D. in School of Architecture (Computational Design) at Carnegie Mellon University writing a thesis about integrating housing design and case-based reasoning. She was an Assistant Professor at NYUST, Taiwan from 2002 to 2007. Since joining the GSCT at KAIST as an Associate Professor, her research focus narrowed down to three interdisciplinary areas that are not mutually exclusive: (1) Calculation for UX + service design, (2) Physical / virtual proximity in city, and (3) Future education with AI. These explorations result in computer-based frameworks or systems contributing to the enhancement of the calculability using algorithmic and/or heuristic computational methods. In other words, her research focus is on ‘culture technology’ as an extension of computational design. She holds “Cultural DNA” international workshops every two years and the results were published in Springer. Currently, she is the Director of the Information-Based Design (IBD) Lab in KAIST. She was the Director in Division of Arts, Culture and Convergence of National Research Foundation (NRF), Korea (2019~2021). She received Sasada prize from the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) in 2019 and served for the Secretary of the CAADRIA from 2008 to 2010. She is also serving as an Editor-in-chief of Korea Institute of Design Research Society (KIDRS), and a Director of Korean Society of Design Science (KSDS) and HCI Korea (KHCI).

 

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GSDS dept. invites you to the following seminar.

 

# Time/Date : Nov. 19 2024 (Tue) 16:00~17:00

# Location: Room 1122 in E2 building 

# Presenter:  Prof.  Ji Hyun Lee

# Title:  A New & Potential Public Relations for a City

- Zoom Link :  https://kaist.zoom.us/j/82591870965  ID:  825 9187 0965 
 

Abstract

What do you think will happen if ideas such as ‘city’ or ‘placemaking’ with such a long history meet cutting-edge technology? When you carefully observe the cases of urban regeneration projects or smart city developments, you will notice two distinct patterns at two extreme ends; One bulldozes a neighboring plot of land next to old city-center and constructs a new city in the form you have probably seen before, and the other, so-called the technology-dependent urban design or ‘Smart City’, integrates all different kinds of equipment, systems, and smart devices into the city planning and believes that all problems can be handled with smartphones. Although this second development pattern is called technology-dependent, it still remains at the level of physical connections. In order to resolve these two problems at extreme ends, we must think about the prospective people who will live in these cities respecting their lifestyles. We also can overcome the limitation of physical proximity via expanding our consideration to virtual proximity such as SNS, etc. Thinking about the lives of people of the era of the metaverse, I carefully suggest a concept of city or placemaking as a complex system embodying both the physical and virtual aspects. The presentations today will cover topics regarding placemaking but approached from the aspect of urban informatics using big data and network theory. We will discuss the methodologies for analyzing the city environments that integrate virtual aspects resolving the issues that rise from physical limitations. Ultimately, these issues can be addressed by understanding the city as a complex system and creating positive public relations by ensuring that the people living in it have happy experiences.

 

Bio 

Ji-Hyun Lee is a Professor at the Graduate School of Culture Technology in KAIST. She received her Ph.D. in School of Architecture (Computational Design) at Carnegie Mellon University writing a thesis about integrating housing design and case-based reasoning. She was an Assistant Professor at NYUST, Taiwan from 2002 to 2007. Since joining the GSCT at KAIST as an Associate Professor, her research focus narrowed down to three interdisciplinary areas that are not mutually exclusive: (1) Calculation for UX + service design, (2) Physical / virtual proximity in city, and (3) Future education with AI. These explorations result in computer-based frameworks or systems contributing to the enhancement of the calculability using algorithmic and/or heuristic computational methods. In other words, her research focus is on ‘culture technology’ as an extension of computational design. She holds “Cultural DNA” international workshops every two years and the results were published in Springer. Currently, she is the Director of the Information-Based Design (IBD) Lab in KAIST. She was the Director in Division of Arts, Culture and Convergence of National Research Foundation (NRF), Korea (2019~2021). She received Sasada prize from the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) in 2019 and served for the Secretary of the CAADRIA from 2008 to 2010. She is also serving as an Editor-in-chief of Korea Institute of Design Research Society (KIDRS), and a Director of Korean Society of Design Science (KSDS) and HCI Korea (KHCI).