Children’s play-Nordic Art & Design Exhibition
06-30 November 2006

at Korea Foundation Cultural Center, Seoul, Korea
Exhibition, Seminar, Workshop for children and Young people

The project brings the Nordic achievements in the field of design and art education for the children to Korea.
An exhibition, seminar, workshop and films will be presented at the Korea Foundation Center in Seoul, Korea,
on November 2006, and will continue to other cities of Korea on 2007
Successful art and design education encourages children’s aesthetic sensitivity, a developed emotional life,
and the skill of observation. Moreover, attention has to be paid to the physical environment, the architecture
and interior design of schools, play grounds and public places.

Curator: Amie Ann( Ae-Kyung An)

Collaborators
Kati Aberg, Finnish art film director
Martin Fougner, Designer, K8, Industrial design company, Norway
Hannu Ylinenpaa, Lappset Oy Region Director
Yoon Kum-Jin, Director, Korea Foundation cultural center
Line Dyrholm, Designer from Aarhus Denmark

Participating Designer, artist, Institution
Lappset Oy Playground facilities for children from Finland
K8, Industrial design company from Oslo Norway “New and Humoristic concept”
Kari Virtanen, Nikari Oy from Fiskars, Finland
Kati Aberg Finnish art film director, installation art space for dancing children
Gopingpong design team from Copenhagen Denmark
Line Dyrholm, Designer from Aarhus Denmark
Sami Rinne, Ceramist, Jyvaskyla, Finland
Woodi children’s furniture company, Kuopio Finland
Charlotte Karlsson designer from Sweden
Mikko Karkkainen Tunto Design from Finland
Ilona Rista artist from Finland
Guest students from Design department of the School of visual arts, The Korean National University of Arts

Project 2007
Korean Home/ The way of living
At the Museum of Cultures, National Museum of Finland, Helsinki.
02 April-30 December 2007

Organizers
Eija Maija Kotilainen, Director, Museum of Cultures, National museum of Finland
Amie Ann, Curator, Visual artist
Kati Aberg, Film director
Jeon Yong-Il, Designer, Professor, Kookmin University
Kim BongYeol, Architect, Professor, Korean National University of Arts

The Korean exhibition will be held at the Museum of Cultures, National museum of Finland 02 April-30
December 2007. The main idea of the Korean exhibition is to present Korean culture towards an
understanding of everyday life in Korea.
The exhibition is a creation of Korean, and thus shows how a great number of Koreans see themselves
and world outside Korea.

The concept of the exhibition
1. The spiritual landscape of the Korean-mountains in Korean thought
      Korean Buddhism- Buddhism greatly gave rise to the Korean aesthetic philosophy
                                     Buddhist though as revealed in Temple architecture
2. Korean traditional home and Korean living way of today
    The structure of the traditional house reveals Korean´s choice to live in unison with nature: utilizing
    materials found in nature (wood, stone, paper) and a complementary relationship between the lines
    created by nature and those produced by man e.g. the construction of the house.
    In the metropolitan city of Seoul and in other cities and towns as well as, the overwhelming uniform
    design of high rise apartment complexes creates a monotones architecture which is out of balance
    with the neighboring structures and natural landscape
3. Korean design, inspiration from traditional handcraft
    The act of striving for the expression of the innate beauty in objects rather than reaching for superficial
    aesthetic material for the exhibition. From this exhibition will given an image of Korea, an understanding
    of the Korean mind, and sense of identity of ancestors.

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