Reading #1 "Loving Laura more"

This story goes that the writer met Laura and Laura did assignments on LearningToLoveYouMore by Harrell Fletcher. From her assignments, her story was introduced to many people in the world and the writer also got to know her more and to love her more. After I read this story, I started to be interested in design with people, Social design and I found an interesting design event.

There is Seoul Design Olympiad 2009 in my country, Korea now. SDO is a comprehensive design culture festival for people from every place, it's organized for the city of Seoul to leap as the center of world design and culture on the occasion of its designation as the WDC(World Design Capital)2010 and this event is hoped to stimulate the economy by emphasizing design's importance and its utilization by the city. This year the theme is "I'm a designer and we are all designers." The objectives are creating a friendly atmosphere for the citizens, providing a relaxing and enjoyable experience for the visitors, Maximizing participation and experience of various entities.

i-sky

One of art works that I think it's a similar case to Love Laura More is 'i-sky.' This artwork is set up in Jam-sil stadium. About 1400 of vertical louvers with steel wire is used at an altitude of 25 meters of the stadium. The vertical louvers having different sizes express soft geographical features of mountain in Seoul and each louver has various messages by people. People who visit the stadium look at the sky with the artwork and get will of overcoming the recession and positive power.
We are not living alone. We are living together and we are communicating. If we can share our story or feeling, we can make better society. It's really a meaningful thing that studying activities contributing to society and practicing them as a designer. Having time to think about social role and responsibility as a designer is important to develop myself and to convey my message to people.