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Raey Yeseul Kim (MSc.) is a design practitioner, art director, and writer in design and parenting.



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︎ Portfolio: Commercial Projects (coming soon)

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she/her


Raey Yeseul Kim(MSc.) is a design professional, art director, and writer in design, design critique, and parenting.



︎︎︎ C.V.
︎︎︎ LinkedIn
︎︎︎ Instagram
︎︎︎ Blog(open soon)



The guide to ruin Floating Cities


MA thesis
the Critical Inquiry Lab 2023-2024

Read the thesis (open in new tap) >
The Guide to Ruin Floating Cities

APR.2024.

Writing
: Thesis

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Unspoken in the Resilient World


MA design project
the Critical Inquiry Lab 2023-2024

Exhibited at Graduation Show 2024 Design Academy Eindhoven
@Microstad
Dutch Desgin Week 2024

Read the script and glossary (open in new tap)
OCT.2024.

Project

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Design and Parenting


The essay series ‘Design and parenting: the products that shape parenting, childcare, and motherhood’ is published on Delft Mama Blog every few months.

Read (open in new tap) >

1. My Sleepless Postpartum Nights with Breast Pumps

2. Holding On and Letting Go: Baby Swings

3. Virtual Insanity: Parental Symbiosis with Digital Connectivity
 
OCT.2022.
-Present

Writing
: Essay

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Water Gardener: Speculative Performance about Floating Islands


The co-creation project was proceeded during the workshop ‘Moving Shorelines and Floating Worlds: Re-imagining Tomorrow’s Water Climate’ hosted by RASL(Rotterdam Art and Science Lab)

See the Project Archive > Water Gardener

Water Gardener (ISSUU: open in new tap) 
Jun.2022.

Design Workshop

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© Design Museum Den Bosch

Thinking Beyond Papanek


Organizing the talk ‘Thinking Beyond Papanek - Decolonizing Design Education: What’s on now and next’ as a side program of the exhibition ‘Victor Papanek: The Politics of Design’ at Design Museum Den Bosch

See the summary of the event (in Dutch)
Beyond Papanek: Decolonizing Design Education

Watch the Talk (Duration: 1:41:43) >
Thinking Beyond Papanek: Decolonizing Design Education: What's on now and next?
Mar.2021.

Design Education

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© Evoluon

Untitled Future: The Story of Evoluon


“When people walked into the body of the creature, rummaged around every part of its innards, and indulged in the taste of the future, the creature couldn’t be prouder of itself than that.”

Read the Fiction >
Untitled Future: The Story of Evoluon (2,310 words, 9 minute read)
FEB.2021.

Writing
: Fiction

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The Vessel of Randomness


“This is a set of data that is almost close to the state of nature, which means its level of randomness is perfect. So, we can reasonably expect them to replace the obsolete pseudo-random numbers, with the hope that they could be the key for solving the Many-body problem.”

Read the Fiction >
The Vessel of Randomness
(4,206 words, 15 minute read)
MAR.2021.

Writing
: Fiction

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The Critical Inquirer #2: Trap, Trap, Trap


Three voices (Maxime Benvenuto, Janfer Chung, Yeseul Kim) seek the meaning of traps in our culture from the ontological manner to the intimate (or specious) status.

Read the Article (Part) >
Trap, Trap, Trap:
Preface, The ontological status of traps

NOV.2020.

Publication

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Selected for PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games Art Poster


Performance art 'The Extreme Landscape' was Selected for Art Posters for the 2018 Winter Olympics and archived in the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Exhibition >
평창동계올림픽 예술포스터전, 국립현대미술관, 서울

Read the article >
The art posters for PyeongChang 2018 
(Olympic website, open in new tap)

예술 포스터로 전 세계서 만나는 평창올림픽 (KBS, open in new tap)
FEB.2018.

Award

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The Extreme Landscape


The bodily drawing performance creating a landscape.

Exhibitions (featured) >
Art Meet Spirit, The Korean Cultural Center, Washington D.C., U.S., 2017.

The Extreme Landscape: how it’s made, Ujung Art Center, 2018.
2015.
- 2018.

Performance

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BAR 25: Bio-Makers Movement


With Artist Duruphil, BAR 25: Bio-Makers Movement was initiated. We developed and conducted the research, DIY projects, seminars, and exhibition.

See the project archive (open in new tap) >
: A one-year journey of BAR 25

Read the book > The Bio Recipe : the guides for crafting bio-materials and DIY apparatus. 

This project was funded by Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture
MAR.2017.
- FEB.2018.

Movement

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Exhibition: Techné Paranoia


The exhibition was directed and organized by Yeseul Kim, Duruphil, as a part of the project ‘BAR 25: Bio-Makers Movement.’

Read the Interview (in Korean) >
기술에 대한 편집증적 고찰의 자세: 테크네 파라노이아, 앨리스온, 2018.

NOV.2017.

Exhibition

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© Raey Yeseul Kim 2023