KAIST participates in ‘Olympic Commemorative Special Exhibition’ in Paris, France

Organized by the French Korean Cultural Center, a special exhibition titled ‘2024 Paris Olympic Commemorative Exhibition on Korean Games’ will be held in Paris for five months starting from May 23rd. KAIST will participate in this exhibition until October. The exhibition at the main French Korean Cultural Center reinterprets the concept of ‘play’ at the origin of the Olympics, encompassing Korea’s play culture from the past, present, and future. Collaborating with cultural and artistic institutions and companies from both countries, seven research labs from KAIST’s Industrial Design Department will also participate. In the exhibition titled ‘Future Play Laboratory’ managed by KAIST, a fusion of design, art, and engineering at the forefront of industrial design research will present the direction in which future play is heading. Featuring experiential exhibits such as ‘Automata Stage’ that helps with integrated education through creative play activities and an augmented reality system to diagnose personal colors using artificial intelligence in ‘Authentic Color Play’, the exhibition will showcase innovative designs for the future, including ‘Delight’ – a kinetic lighting that changes the intensity and direction of light from lamps according to the shape of a lampshade, and ‘Bugatti Souffle’ presenting the vision of future mobility design. Interactive art installations like ‘Snow Message’ conveying messages from threatened glaciers due to global warming and interaction designs of web-based interactive artwork ‘Unknown Territory’ will also be on display. Through this five-month exhibition in the Olympic host city, KAIST aims to introduce its interdisciplinary research outcomes to visitors worldwide. Professor Lee Woo-hoon, head of the Industrial Design Department at KAIST, expressed expectations that the seven exhibition works humanizing technology with Korean sensibility will imprint the identity of Korean design on global visitors.