- Be a tourist. Embrace it. You are new here.
- Observe the environment through your own lens. What do you notice? What draws your attention?
- Learn the subway and bus systems.
- Begin to understand Korean history and culture.
- Eat well and adjust to the time difference.
SCHEDULE μΌμ SUMMER 2026
PROGRAM ARC
Weekly focuses and reflections across five weeks in Seoul.
- Explore more!
- Begin translating what you have observed into form.
- Collect, organize, and edit your material. What is worth keeping? What patterns are emerging?
- Test how your observations can become structure, sequence, or system.
- Consider how design operates within different contexts.
- What do you notice about how Korean designers approach form, material, and communication?
- How does your work relate to what you are seeing? Where does it align or differ?
- Refine and clarify your ideas.
- Synthesize your research, observations, and experiments into a cohesive direction.
- Engage feedback seriously and push your work beyond initial expectations.
- Finalize your work with attention to detail and clarity.
- Consider how your work will be experienced by others.
- Take time to reflect on the program as a whole. What stayed with you? What shifted? And, of course, enjoy your final days in Seoul.