The Korea Times
Kookmin University, one of Korea’s leading institutions in design education, co-hosted for the first time an international design award ceremony jointly with the Italian Association for Industrial Design (ADI) in Milan last week. The university said the inaugural Design Beyond East & West (DBEW) Award, held at the ADI Design Museum, served not only as an award ceremony, but also as a forum where students, educators and experts discussed the future of design. Kookmin announced that the Gold Prize was awarded to Baoyi Huang and professor David Buck from the University of Sheffield for their design work titled “Ecological Samsara — Soundscape Transformation of Parkwood Springs.” The Silver Prizes went to three teams from HTW Berlin University of Applied Sciences, Avantika University in India and L'École de design Nantes Atlantique in France. Kookmin University noted that the award is a global recognition reflecting the design values and aesthetics of Asian culture within the broader context of world design. Based on a new design paradigm that transcends the boundaries between East a
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