Bio

Raey Yeseul Kim (she/her)

I’m an information designer, design researcher, and writer based in South Korea and the Netherlands. My research focuses on the politics of design, materials, and technologies as vehicles of anthropogenic activity amid the climate crisis. I explore these topics through critical assessment, using visual representation and narrative.


︎︎︎ C.V.
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For collaborations, commissions, or publication requests:
︎ myriadworld@gmail.com
she/her

Raey Yeseul Kim is an information designer, design researcher, and writer based in South Korea and the Netherlands. Her research focuses on the politics of design, materials, and technologies as vehicles of anthropogenic activity amid the climate crisis. She explores these topics through critical assessment, using visual representation and narrative.


︎︎︎ C.V.
︎︎︎ LinkedIn
︎︎︎ Instagram

For collaborations, commissions, or publication requests:
︎ myriadworld@gmail.com




Short Story

A Memoir of Touch


a speculative from the perspective of a sentient microbe living on the glowing surface of a touchscreen. Rescuing bacteria from being recklessly named Engel barterium

Collective publication project ‘TECHNOPOLITICS’ organized and directed by Baltan Laboratory, Eindhoven (NL).

Read the story (open in new tap) >
A Memoir of Touch

Feb.2025.

Baltan Laboratory & 
Fictional Journal
Eindhoven,
The Netherlands




MA Thesis

The guide to ruin Floating Cities


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

APR.2024.

The Critical Inquiry Lab,
Design Academy Eindhoven

Eindhoven, 
The Netherlands





MA Design Project

Unspoken in the Resilient World


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

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

The Critical Inquiry Lab,
Design Academy Eindhoven

Eindhoven,
The Netherlands




Essay

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

Delft Mama

Delft,
The Netherlands






Workshop

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.

RASL(Rotterdam Art and Science Lab)

Rotterdam,
The Netherlands






© Design Museum Den Bosch

Design Education

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 Museum Den Bosch

‘s-Hertogenbosch,
The Netherlands








© Evoluon

Shory Story

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.

The Curatorial Research Collective (CRC) at TU Eindhoven

Eindhoven,
The Netherlands








Short Story

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.

The Critical Inquiry Lab,
Design Academy Eindhoven

Eindhoven,
The Netherlands





Editorial

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.

The Critical Inquiry Lab,
Design Academy Eindhoven

Eindhoven,
The Netherlands





Award

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.

IOC (International Olympic Committee)
PyeongChang, 
South Korea






Performance

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.

Multiple cities


Collective project

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 publication > 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.

Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture
Seoul,
South Korea



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.

Platform-L Contemporary Art Center
Seoul,
South Korea





MSc Thesis

Designing Ephemeral User Interface Using Soap Foam


The research explored the adaptability of a natural material in the realm of Tangible User Interfaces and developed the interactive ephemeral interface with soap foam.

MSc. Thesis
Department of Industrial Design,
Wonder Lab (Former Design Media Lab)
KAIST (Daejeon, KR)

Read the summary of the research (open in new tap) > Designing Ephemeral User Interface Using Soap Foam

︎
Featured in Elementare Ekstasen. Sondierungen der Technosphäre (2024, Léa Perraudin), published by the research cluster “Matters of Activity” at Humboldt university in Berlin (DE).

Open access (open in new tap) > Elementare Ekstasen. Sondierungen der Technosphäre

Feb.2015.

The Department of Industrial Design, KAIST

Daejeon,
South Korea
© Raey Yeseul Kim 2025