RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Inter-scale Relations and Phygital Space
- Urban Intelligence and Civic Technology
- Speculative Prototyping and Design Invention
Trained at Seoul National University and Columbia GSAPP, I study how digital infrastructures, data, and urban systems interact across scales—from buildings to platforms. My work examines how computation can serve not efficiency, but imagination and justice in the built environment.
Currently, I teach at Ajou University and work as a Senior Researcher at Haenglim Architects & Engineers, leading projects that integrate AI-driven design, urban research, and emerging technologies. My research and installations have been featured in the Venice and Seoul Biennales, where I explore phygital spaces—hybrid environments that blur the boundaries between the physical and the digital.
My current research interests include Urban Intelligence and Civic Technology, and Speculative Prototyping and Design Invention—examining how cities can evolve as open, participatory systems through computational tools and collective imagination.
At the core of my inquiry is the question of scale: how small architectural interventions can expand through networks and institutions to generate urban impact, while larger systems absorb and rewrite local behaviors and forms. This reciprocal dynamic between the micro and macro informs my pursuit of new urban rules—dynamic, democratic, and intelligent systems that enable citizens to co-author the cities they inhabit.
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