{"id":4382,"date":"2021-01-05T14:54:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T14:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soomipark.com\/?p=4382"},"modified":"2021-01-05T14:54:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T14:54:04","slug":"exhibition-between-dreamy-and-dreary-fiction-in-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soomipark.com\/?p=4382","title":{"rendered":"[exhibition] Between Dreamy and Dreary: Fiction in Design"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Between Dreamy and Dreary: Fiction in Design<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Solo exhibition at Celine Park Gallery<\/a> in Seoul, South Korea<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soomi Park & Owen Wells<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cScience\nfiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It’s about a free imagination\npinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bruce Sterling, Shaping Things (2005)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For decades the technological dreams and\naesthetics of fiction have directly influenced the world of design. Fiction\ncreates desires about the world we imagine being part of, which intern creates\nexpectations for designers. We are at a point where fiction has become\nassimilated into the field of design in structured and formalised ways: from\nthe use of fiction as a part of the education of new designers; to the adoption\nof Design Fiction as a tool by major tech companies, government bodies,\nscientists, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For us, fiction is an important part of our\ndesign process. To us, it means: narration and narrative; complexity;\ncharacters; humour; props; costumes; and at an abstract level, a place to\ndiscuss alternative or unseen versions of reality. It gives us the possibility\nto experiment with concepts which are not ordinarily afforded by market-driven\ndesign. Ideas that exist Between Dreamy\nand Dreary.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Individually we approach this in different\nways. Soomi has a background in film and digital media design and is currently\nstudying for a PhD in cognitive psychology. Her practice focuses on\nillustrating the complex relationship between emerging technologies and human\ndesires. Owen is trained in product and furniture design, and his education has\ndeeply rooted the idea that good design is a conversation between materials and\nprocesses. He is interested in exploring how as a designer we can experiment\nwith the technologies of cinema and video games. As a couple, we bring these\ninterests together in the work we collaborate on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This exhibition is a collection of five\nprojects that show our approach to design. The projects cover some topics we\nthink are critical to consider at this moment, like death, privacy, histories,\npsychology, emotion and robots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Between Dreamy and Dreary: Fiction in Design Solo exhibition at Celine Park Gallery in Seoul, South Korea Soomi Park & Owen Wells \u201cScience fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It’s about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.\u201d Bruce Sterling, Shaping Things (2005) For decades…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soomipark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soomipark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soomipark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soomipark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soomipark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/soomipark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4384,"href":"https:\/\/soomipark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4382\/revisions\/4384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soomipark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soomipark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soomipark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}