Background (Key Word)

Incheon, a city with over 3 million inhabitants, is a global metropolis embracing diverse ages, races, and cultures. It's a city where the socially vulnerable, including people with disabilities, the elderly, women, children, and foreigners, coexist and communicate.

The 2023 Incheon International Design Forum has chosen its theme around the universal life, thoughts, and urban environment of these community members. It focuses on 'Communication and Coexistence' to encapsulate the concept of 'inclusive design' as its slogan.

Session Sub-Topics

  • Communication; Inclusive Design

    This focuses on embedding philosophical values that ensure everyone in the city can live safely, easily, and with human dignity. It involves considering what citizens need and want, recognizing the importance of acknowledging differences while accepting each other, and implementing the values of universal design so that everyone can enjoy a universal life without significant effort or external help.

    Keywords: Versatility, Irritability, Flexibility, Convenience

  • Coexistence; Inclusive Design

    This theme emphasizes the need for design to be age, gender, and mobility agnostic. It involves removing barriers that could have excluded certain people, ethnic groups, organizations, or fields, and recognizes a broader range of fields and collaboration, accepting differences as part of 'universal design for coexistence.'

    Keywords: Receptivity, Affinity, Reality

Forum Schedule

hour

time(min)

Content

10:30
~
12:20

110“

“40

10:30~11:10

session 1
(Communication and
Coexistence incLusive design)
live interpretation

presentation1

Ju-hyun Son, Director, Walt Disney Company Ltd

Incorporating Storytelling into Design

“20

11:10~11:30

Break time –Video Presentation

“40

11:30~12:10

presentation2

Jun-hyuk Kim, Unit Manager, GC Green Cross

Digital Healthcare Services for a Healthy Life

“10

12:10~12:20

Panel Discussion & Q&A

Sung-hwan Kim, Vice President

Vice President of Incheon Gyeonggi Design Company Association

Lunch Break 12:20~13:30 (Stage Setting)-Video Presentation

13:30
~
15:30

“120

“50

13:30~14:20

session 2
(Invited Lecture: International Speaker)
live interpretation

Nick Dunn, (Senior Research Fellow at Lancaster University's Institute for Social Futures, UK)

Design for ALL: PeopLe, PLace, PLanet

“50

14:25~15:15

Guanyou Chen, Vice President, DesignSingapore Council

Singapore: Better By Design

“15

15:15~15:30

Panel Discussion & Q&A

Kyung-ran Oh, (Representative of HMS)

Representative of Incheon Gyeonggi Design Company Association

break time 15:30~15:40 (Stage Setting)-Video Presentation

15:40
~
18:00

“140

“40

15:40~16:20

session 3
(Communication and CoexistenceincLusive design)
live interpretation

presentation1

Kyung-hee Jeon, (Head of Korail Design Center)

Rail Industry and Design as a Convergent Industrial Platform,

“40

16:20~17:00

presentation2

Ji-yong Ahn, Executive Director( LG Space Research Institute)

Design Strategies for Sustainable Space

“40

17:00~17:40

presentation3

Byung-soo Kim, CEO of Mission It, former Samsung Electronics Product Designer

Three Ways Design Can Create an Inclusive Society

“20

17:40~18:00

Panel Discussion & Q&A

Jung-woo Park (The head of manongtanto)

Vice President, Incheon Gyeonggi Design Company Association

closing ceremony

18:00

“10

“10

18:00~18:10

live interpretation

Hee-kyung Kim, Chairman

Emcee