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Eun Jeong Jeon

 

 

E-mail: eunjeongjeon@hotmail.com

        jeong90@hotmail.com

 

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Professional info

 

Research Intersts

 

Body-centered, Emotion, Sensory-movement based on Interaction design, Textiles, Furniture, Technology,

Design Method 

Languages

 

English

Korean

 

Skills

 

PHOTOSHOP

DESIGN METHOD

 

 

 

Academic Qualifications

 

  • Doctor of Philosophy Design, Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia (2013).

  • Master of Design Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia(2005).

  • Post graduate Diploma Visual Arts, Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia (2006).

  • Bachelor of Fine Arts Hong-ik University, South Korea (1997).

  • Certificate Furniture Design DIS (Denmark’s International Study Programm) Copenhagen, Denmark (1996).

 

 

Professional Experience

 

  • Post-Doc researcher in Designing Quality in Interaction (DQI) at the Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology (2013 Feb-2014 Feb). 

  • Guest researcher in Designing Quality in Interaction (DQI) at the Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology (Oct 2012-Jan 2013).

 

 

Selected the Creative Work

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  • Tangible-E-M-otion (2016~): This project investigates: (1) how our emotion can be generated from body movement; and (2) how the smart textile as an interactive medium can perceive a change in people’s emotion.  This work was a collaborative design work with an academic researcher at the department of Robotic Science and Technology in Chubu University in Japan and Dr. Senior Researcher Min-Gyu Kim at Korea Institute of Robotic and Convergence in South Korea. 

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  • Vibe-ing (2013): This is a self-care tool in the form of a garment, which invites the body to feel, move, and heal through vibration therapy. As part of Smart Textile Services (CRISP) project Vibe-ing is a collaboration project between Eindhoven University of Technology, TextielMuseum TextielLab Tilburg, and Metaronics, the Netherlands.

 

  • More than meets the eye (2013): Sensory-driven explorative research through design project, Form finding through vibration as part of the Post-Doc research project (2013) at the Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.

 

  • A Series of Trans-For-M-otion (Trans-For-M-otion (2010), Disguise-Garment (2010, 2013, 2016), Touch me, Feel me, Play with me (2010, 2013), Jigsaw-Puzzle (2010, 2013)): The design project investigates what is meant by clothing comfort in aesthetic quality and how form can be empowered by touch, movement and emotion. The textiles are designed to have sensing, adapting and reacting capabilities. The design process for the textiles considers in particular how they are designed to detect feelings such as fear and react by closing around the wearer to foster a greater sense of security. Disguise-Garment, for example, is created from felted wool layered units that trap air and embedded with LED light and sensor technology. The textile responds to the wearer's actions by changing texture and reconfiguring its position on the body. In addition to the protective qualities, embedded LED lights and sensors, the illuminated textile is designed to morph and change color to help the wearer feel simultaneously playful, and confident. The textiles, in particular, Touch me, Feel me, Play with me are designed to invite the wearer to create dynamic modes of touch. Different modes of touch stimulate different levels of sensorial responses. The quality of the textiles, for examples, Trans-For-m-otion and Jigsaw-Puzzle are designed to be open to diverse experiences. For this reason, the textiles can be configured in various ways through different bodily interactions, which allows the wearer to express individuality. The design project argues that these qualities have the potential to enhance the user’s health and well-being and emotional connection to a garment, and therefore are as important as the physical qualities of comfort. This textile designs is based on the doctoral thesis, Designing enriched aesthetic interaction for garment comfort in 2013. This research is linked to the ARC Linkage project “Innovative Solutions for Wool Garment Comfort though Design” (Project ID: LP0775433), in conjunction with the Wooldesk at DAFWA (Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia).

 

  • Form and Formlessness (2009): The Visual Art project participated in the Intertidal workshop in conjunction with a large project titled ‘Fremantle on the Edge’ held in Perth in 2009 at Curtin University of Technology, WA. Led by International Artist, Maria Blaisse, from the Netherlands, 15-17, April 2009. 

 

  • Trans-In and Out (2007): Designing Future Cluster Development project (2007) supported by FORM in Perth, WA. Led by Australian furniture designer, John Goulder. 

 

  • Thing from Thingness, Thing from the Void (2006): The Visual Art project at Curtin University of Technology. Researched on the body’s interaction with spatial tactility.

 

  • The spirituality of number 10+1 (2006): Visual Art project: The ethos of the day of provocation at Curtin University of Technology, 24 Oct –11 Nov 2006, John Curtin Gallery.

 

  • One-in-Five, Swing Chair, Rock & Feel (2005): MA project: Application of the concept of emotional aesthetics in designing chair-sitting behaviours and cognitive images.  Curtin University of Technology.

 

  • More with Less (2005): Emotional aesthetic: The application of dematerialisation designing process in furniture design. This design was in the Master project in 2005 at Curtin Universit of Technoloy in Perth. Research was experimented into the body’s interaction with functional, emotional, sensorial awareness.

 

 

Book Chapters

 

  • Jeon, E. (2015). Fashion Design for Living. In Alison Gwilt (Eds), Form empowered by touch, movement, and emotion, (pp.134-150). London, UK:Rouledge.

 

  • Jeon, E. (2011). Fremantle on the Edge vol 4, Intertidal. In Nancy Spanbroek & Anne Farren (Eds), Body shadow water, body shadow sand, (pp. 24-27). Perth: Paper and Pencil.

 

 

Books: A selection of work is appeared as illustrations in international books

 

  • Trans-For-M-otion appeared in A Practical Guide to Sustainable Fashion (2020) edited by Alison Gwilt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, London, UK:Rouledge.

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  • Trans-For-M-otion appeared in Acts of Undressing: Politics, Eroticism, and Discarded Clothing (2017) edited by Barbara Brownie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, London, UK:Rouledge.

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  • Vibe-ing appeared in Advances in Smart Medical Textiles: Treatments and Health Monitoring  (2016) edited by Lieva van Langenhove, published by Woodhead Publishing, London, UK.

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  • Trans-For-M-otion appeared in The Future of Fashion is Now (2014, pp. 46-47) edited by José Teunissen, Han Nefkens, Jos Arts, Hanka van der Voet and published by Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam.

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  • Disguise Garment appeared in A Practical Guide to Sustainable Fashion (2020, 2013, pp. 58-59) edited by Alison Gwilt and published by Bloomsbury, London.

 

  • Trans-For-M-otion appeared in Textile Visionaries: Innovation and Sustainability in Textile Design (2013, pp. 222-231) edited by Bradley Quinn and published by Laurence King Publishers, London. 

 

  • Trans-For-M-otion appeared in Fashion Futures (2012, pp. 42-43) edited by Bradley Quinn and published by Merrell, London.

 

  • Trans-For-M-otion appeared in Advanced Textile for Health and Well-being edited (2011) by Marie O’Mahony and published by Thames & Hudson.

 

  • Trans-For-M-otion appeared in Beyond Garment catalogue (2010, pp. 6-7) edited by Ann Farren and published by Western Australian Museum.

 

  • Trans-For-M-otion appeared in Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools (ACUADS) Research 2009 (2009, pp. 4-7) edited by Ross Woodrow and published by the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University.

 

 

Journal paper

 

  • Jeon, E. (2013). ‘Emotional object creation’: Experiencing through unknowing, knowing through experiencing. In Design Principles and Practices: The International Journal of Design in Society, 7(2), 1-17. University of Illinois Research Park, USA: Common Ground Publisher.

 

 

Peer Reviewed Conferences

 

  • Jeon, E. (2016). Fashionable Future?: Embodied garment comfort from the power of aesthetic interaction: A garment designed for evoking emotion and movement. In Empowering the intangible: exploring feeling and expressing through the arts:  AoMO (Art of Management & Organisation Conference held in IEDC_Bled School of Management 2016, 1-4 September 2016. Bled, Slovenia. 

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  • Jeon, E. (2013). ‘Touch me, Feel me, Play with me.’ In Praxis and Poetics: Research Through Design Conference Proceedings 2013 held in Newcastle upon Tyne & Gateshead, 3rd -2 5th September. The Baltic Centre, Contemporary Art, UK.

 

  • ten Bhömer, M., Jeon, E., & Kussk, K. (2013). Vibe-ing: Designing a smart textile care tool for the treatment of osteoporosis. In L. Feijs, S.Fraser, S. Kyffin & D. Stefen (Eds.), In Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Design and semantics of form and movement DeSForM 2006 (pp. 192-195). Wuxi, China. second author.

 

  • Jeon, E. (2012). ‘Enriched aesthetic interaction’ through sense of dynamic emotional bodily expression with garment: quantitative analysis with Motion Capture (MC) data. In J. Brassett, J. McDonnell & M. Malpass (Eds.), Proceedings of 8th International Design and Emotion Conference 2012. London: Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design.

 

  • Jeon, E. (2011). ‘Enriched aesthetic interaction’ through sense from haptic visuality. In Design at the Edges: Proceedings of International Design Alliance (IDA) Congress Education Conference 2011 held in Taipei, Taiwan 24-26 Oct 2011 (pp.28-35). Taipei International Convention Centre (TICC).  

 

  • Jeon, E. (2011). Body shadow water, body shadow sand. In N. Spanbroek & A. Farren (Eds.), Fremantle on the Edge vol 4, Intertidal (pp. 24-27). Perth: Paper and Pencil.

 

  • Jeon, E. (2010). ‘Aesthetic experience and comfort’: Garment design integrated with movement qualities, dynamic bodily expression, and emotion. In P. Lévy., & C. Bouchard., & T. Yamanaka., & A. Aoussat (Eds.), Proceedings of Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research (KEER) International Conference 2010 held in Paris, France 2-4 March 2010 (pp. 1917-1929). Arts et Metiers ParisTech.

 

  • Jeon, E. (2009). ‘Object playing with movement’: A source of comfort and enjoyment. In K. Lee (Eds.), Rigor and Relevance in Design: Proceedings of an International Association of Societies of Design Research (ISASDR) Conference 2009 held in Seoul, Korea, 18-22 Oct 2009 (pp. 18-22). Seoul, Korea: Korean Society of Design Science. 

 

  • Jeon, E., & Worden, S. (2009). ‘Aesthetic experience and comfort’: The relationship between semantic form and body movement for the design of wool clothing. In K. Lee (Eds.), Rigor and Relevance in Design: Proceedings of an International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR) Conference 2009 held in Seoul, Korea, 18-22 Oct 2009. Seoul, Korea: Korean Society of Design Science.

 

 

Studio Workshops & Activities

 

  • Invited to show film: Sound as touch, at Design Films: ArcInTex Symposium Embodied Interaction Research Techniques, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, 15-16 Oct, 2014.

 

  • Invited coach for Close to the Body Research Studio Workshop, Master in Advanced Interaction at Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC). Held at Pujades 102, 08005 Barcelona, Spain, 11-15 Feb 2013. 

 

  • Invited lecturer for Walking as an Art of Movement Workshop at Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 5 Nov 2013. This workshop was given the lecture with Sietske Klooster (Netherlands-based design-choreographer). This aim of lecture was to (1) understand the nature of walking in everyday activities, in particular how a whole body is shaped differently based on the different walking patterns and (2) apply experience of walking into smart textiles design.

 

  • Invited coach for Crafting Wearables Workshop where students of the Master Industrial Design at TU/e and Master Fashion Design at ArtEZ, the Netherlands were participated, 18-22 Nov 2013.

 

  • Invited coach for Balanced Bodies, Moving Mind, Wearable Senses, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands,2013. 

       

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Selected Exhibitions

 

  • Ambiguous Scenery exhibition Exhibition for Series of Trans-For-M-otion. Held at Digiark, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, June - Aug 2017. 

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  • Fashioning Technology  Exhibit for Tangible-E-otion. Held at Raine Square, Perth, WA, 6-30 Oct 2016.

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  • Mode in Flux exhibit for Jigsaw-Puzzle. Held at Roca London Gallery, London, UK, 1 Jul- 27 Aug 2016.

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  • Future of the Fashion is Now exhibition Exhibit for Disguise Garment. Held at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 11 Oct 2014-18 Jan 2015.

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  • Smart Textiles – Wearable Services exhibition Exhibit Vibe-ing, TextielMuseum Tilburg, the Netherlands, 21 Jan 2015 - 22 Feb 2015.

 

  • Smart Flexibility: Advanced Materials and Technologies exhibition Exhibit for Vibe-ing. Helad at Disseny Hub Barcelona, Spain, 25 June-20 Dec 2014.

       Retrieved from http://exhibitions.materfad.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/EN_19_12_2013_Smart-Flexibility-file.pdf 

 

  • Co-Created Wearables exhibition Exhibit Vibe-ing, Open Lab Expo in Baltan Laboratories, Eindhoven, the Netherlands,  28 Jan – 2 Feb 2014.

 

  • Tradition meets Future exhibition Exhibit for Vibe-ing, Kantfabriek, Horst, the Netherlands, 23 March 2014 – 28 Sep 2014.

 

  • Night of the Nerds exhibition Exhibit for Vibe-ing, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 21 May 2014.

 

 

 

  • Praxis and Poetics: Research Through Design Conference exhibition Exhibit for Touch me, Feel me, Play with me. Held at The Baltic Centre, Contemporary Art, Newcastle upon Tyne & Gateshead, UK, 3 -5 Sept 2013.   

           

  • Wearable Senses exhibition Exhibit for Vibe-ing as Smart Textiles designed by Jeon, E, Kussk, K., & ten Bhömer. Held at Baltan Laboratorie, Natlab, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

 

  • ArchInTex Network exhibition Exhibit for Vibe-ing designed by Jeon, E, Kussk, K., & ten Bhömer. Held at Tio3, Ronse, Belgium, 14-18 Oct 2013.

       Retrived from http://arcintex.hb.se/uploads/images/pdf/Playful-research-in-smart-textiles.pdf 

 

  • Beijing Design Week Do Dutch Design (Amsterdam Guest City exhibition) Exhibit for Vibe-ing as health care tool to designed by Jeon, E, Kussk, K., & ten Bhömer. Held at the Blue Tank, 751 D Park, The Dutch Pavilion, Beijing, China, 26 Sep-3 Oct 2013. Visitors: Approx 9000 visitors.

 

  • Dutch Design Week exhibition Exhibit for Vibe-ing as health care tool designed by Jeon, E, Kussk, K., & ten Bhömer. Held at Designhuis, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 19-27 Oct 2013.

 

 

 

  • DeSForM exhibition Exhibit for Vibe-ing,  Wuxi Museum of Chinese Calligraphy and Paintings, Wuxi Museum of Chinese Calligraphy and Paintings, Wuxi, China. Visitors: 30 conference delegates. 22-25 Sept 2013

 

  • De Gezonde Mens exhibition Exhibit for Vibe-ing Designhuis, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. 20 Sep 2013 - 24 Dec 2013.

 

  • DESIGN CHANGES as part of Design United exhibition Exhibit for Vibe-ing,  designed by Jeon, E, Kussk, K., & ten Bhömer. Held at Designhuis, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 19-27 Oct 2013.

 

 

  • Extreme Edges exhibition Exhibit for Form and Formlessness. Held at Fremantle, WA, 8 May-5 June 2009. Retrieved from

        https://humanities.curtin.edu.au/schools/BE/architecture_interiorarchitecture/pdf/fremantle_summary_event.pdf

 

        http://johncurtingallery.curtin.edu.au/exhibitions/archive/2005.cfm#eleven​

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  • MOST exhibition Exhibit for Wedding & Objects. Held at COEX (Convention and Exhibition: World trade Centre), Seoul, South Korea, 24 -29 March 1998.

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  • MOST exhibition Exhibit for Wedding & Objects. Held at COEX (Convention and Exhibition: World trade Centre), Seoul, South Korea.

 

  • Hong-ik University Graduation Degree Show Exhibit for Oneness. Held at COEX (Convention and Exhibition: World trade Centre), Seoul, South Korea, 15-20 Nov 1997.

 

 

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Public Lectures

 

 

  • Invited as a guest lecturer for Swedish School of Textiles (SST), Borås, Sweden. Talk entitled Form empowered by touch, movement, and emotion, 10 Dec

       2013. Retrieved from http://www.hb.se/en/The-Swedish-School-of-Textiles/About-the-Swedish-School-of-Textiles/News-and-events/Events/designseminar/                    Previous-seminars1/

 

  • Invited as a speaker for Design debates: Craftism, Designhuis, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 29 Nov 2012. This event was the design debate during Dutch Design Week (DDW) discuss about craft, design, and technology in the filed of fashion design. 

 

  • Invited talk for School of Humanities, Royal College Art of School, London, UK. Talk entitled Designing Enriched Aesthetic Interaction for Garment Comfort, 6 Nov 2012.

 

  • Invited talk for the Art and Design Research Center, Sheffield University of Technology, UK. Talk Designing Enriched Aesthetic Interaction for Garment Comfort, 4 Dec 2012.

 

  • Invited talk for the Department Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. Talk entitled Designing Enriched Aesthetic Interaction for Garment Comfort, Oct 2012.

 

  • Invited as a guest lecturer for Department of Interior Architecture, Curtin University, WA. Talk entitled Designing for Enriched Interaction: Comfort and Design Principles, 23 Sep 2010.

 

  • Invited talk for London College of Fashion, London, UK. Talk entitled Emotional Design: Development of the Conceptual Prototypes, 12 March 2010.

 

  • Invited as a guest lecturer for Eindhoven University o Technology (TU/e), Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Talk entitled Garment Design Integrated with Movement Qualities, Dynamic Bodily Expression, Emotion, 18 March 2010.

 

  • Invited as an artist panelist for Beyond Garment Seminar, Perth, WA, Oct 2010. The aim of this seminar was to discuss how to promote Western Australia’s artwork and artists internationally.

 

  • Invited as a guest lecturer for Hong-ik University, Seoul, South Korea. Talk entitled Emotion involved in object creation, 24 Oct 2009.

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Awards and Grants

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  • Australia Korea Foundation Emerging Designer Exchange Program (2016) Final runner-up. 

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  • Curtin University, Faculty of Humanities, Humanities Research Award (2011) Greg Crombie Postgraduate Award ($2,000).

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  • Australian Postgraduate Award Industry (APAI) from Australian Research Council (ARC) project “Innovative Solutions for Wool Garment Comfort through Design” (Project ID: LP0775433) in conjunction with the Wooldesk at DAFWA (Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia) (2007-2010).

 

  • VIVID Concept-Prototype Melbourne Exhibition Centre (2007).

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Thesis

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  • Jeon, E. (2013). Designing enriched aesthetic interaction for garment comfort. (Unpublished doctoral thesis). Perth, WA: Curtin University. 

        

  • Jeon, E. (2005). Application of the concept of emotional aesthetics in designing chair-sitting behaviours and cognitive images. (Unpublished Masters dissertation). Perth, WA: Curtin University.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2010 - present

2010 - present

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