Seoul Design Olympiad 2009

Theme: i-DESIGN
Veune: Jamsil Sprots Complex+ Han River Park + 
          city centers throughout Seoul
Date: Oct.09-Oct.29
Website: http://sdo.seoul.go.kr/

 The Design culture festival, Seoul Design Olympiad 2009 raised
a fever all over the city of Seoul last October. The Seoul De-
sign Olympiad 2009, which has been holding shows annually
every fall since its first event in 2008, celebrates the design-
ation of the city of Seoul as the world's design center. The
objective is to promote a cultural festival as a means to en-
hance the quality of citizens¡¯ lives in Seoul.  The event, titled
i-DESIGN, implying that every one of us can be a designer, held
various conferences, exhibitions, contests, and festivals at
Jamsil Sprots Complex, the Han River Park, and city centers
throughout Seoul for 21 days.
 The Seoul International Design Conference, which ran from the
9th of October to the 11th, featured Designomoics, demonst-
rating that design is the key in solving the economic downturn.
The event was participated in by Gianfranco Zaccai (the chairm
an of Italian Design Continuum), Paul Kelley from UK, Kenya
Hara from Japan, and other prominent designers and profession-
als working in the field of design all collaborating to discover
new values of design.  The design exhibition, which turned
Jamsil Sports Complex into a market place, offered a dynamic
place where emerging designers from all over the world could
present and sell their works, allowing it to become a meeting
place of various designs.  The Seoul Design Contest titled In-
terflow & Consilience featured works by designers selected by
the theme of bio-friendliness.  The event of was filled with
other events such as performance, play, and parades pertain-
ing to the theme, i-Design, inducing participation from the
audience in various parts of the city.


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