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Forbes 30 Under 30

Designer, Harvard Graduate School Of Design 
Hyejun Youn is an artist and designer at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. With a background in psychology (she earned her bachelor's degree in social psychology from New York University)...

Red Dot Design Award 2022

PneuBots toolkit 2022 
PneuBots is a modular soft robotics construction kit that includes seven types of high tensile strength self- foldable segments, three types of pneumatic connectors and splitters and a custom-designed box. It is designed to support designers, artists and developers in their exploration by providing affordable, modular and programmable soft robotics kits that are programmable to their creative visions...


Core77 Design Awards 2022

WinnerDesign Education Initiative Award
We are proud to see more than 200 designs honored by our jury teams this year. From refreshingly lo-fi design solutions to highly complex, collaborative products and systems, these projects wowed jury members with their innovative approaches. Explore the honored designs from all 18 categories here....


IDA Awards   

FlowIO wins IDA Awards 2021
FlowIO is a modular pneumatics development platform that facilitates prototyping in soft robotics and programmable materials, created by Responsive Environments PhD student Ali Shtarbanov with collaborators Hye Jun Youn (Harvard University) and Ozgun Kilic Afsar (KTH Royal Institute of Technology and the Tangible Media research group). The project received two International Design Awards (IDA) during 2021: Gold in Media and Home Electronics/Robotics, and Silver in Education/Self-learning devices...

MIT Media Lab News

FlowIO wins iF Design Talent Award 2021 
FlowIO, a modular  pneumatics development platform for soft robotics and programmable materials, has been selected as a winner of the iF DESIGN TALENT AWARD 2021...

RedDot Winner

Youn Hye Jun for "AuxeticBreath"
It is a great moment for all of us, and I’d like to congratulate all the good designers, all the design teams and all the companies who are the winners of this year..

The Korea Herald

Pandemic-inspirted Interactive installation work wins Red Dot Award
Interaction designer redefines breathing as source of fear in pandemic era. In normal times, breathing is recognized as a central force of life. But in the seemingly endless days of the COVID-19 pandemic, that same process of delivering air into and out of our lungs has transformed into a threatening source of anxiety and conflict. The possibility of very real danger lurks in every breath let out...




The Korea Times

Exploring pandemic psyche in art: When you breathe out, people are frightened
AuxeticBreath, an interactive new media installation that visualizes the change in perception about humans’ breathing during the pandemic, was announced as the winner of the “Red Dot” at the Red Dot Award: Design Concept 2021. Interactive designer Youn Hye-jun observed the interaction with collective breaths and visually rendered the rhythmic patterns of human breath using soft robotics and auxetic structures...




GeorgiaTech 
RoboticsXArt

RSS 2021 Workshop on Robotics x Arts
Robotics x Arts Exhibition: Opportunities and Issues in Robotics Applied in the Arts. This workshop draws from the idea that art plays a critical role in establishing culture and understanding of how technology impacts broader society. Robotics and machine learning particularly can bring a radical transformation to the act of creative expression, by computationally replacing, enhancing or complementing artistic creativity and skills⁠—that we have traditionally believed as exclusive to humans...




The Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art 

The Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art Announces Avant Premiere 
Online musem specifically designed for the digital age, announces the Avant Premiere special event as parrt of Mowna’s opening show... 




The Harvard Crimson

HackHarvard 2019, Remy
Hundreds of students from universities representing five continents spent 36 sleepless hours coding over the weekend during the fifth annual HackHarvard, a student-run hackathon held at the Student Organizations Center at Hilles. Students from various schools, including RISD and MIT, worked on ...




TEI Conference: Intangible Losses

THE VIRTUAL EXHIBITION: ART SPACE 5020 SALZBURG
The exhibition “Intangible Losses” questions the dissolution of object-like interfaces and presents the current tendencies of emerging artists, scientists and technologists who are rethinking interfaces at the boundaries of art, design, the sciences and technology...




The Subnet: Salzburg, Austria

SubnetAIRs 2021: Hyejun Youn at TEI  
Hyejun Youn is an interactive designer, developer and researcher with a passion for user experience and design and Human-Computer Interacction using cutting-edge technology and psychology...




Magazine Interview

DNMD Magazine:Designer Interview

Artist Hyejun Youn, Human Psychology into the Emerging Technology in 3 Days 2 Nights. The U.S. hackathons are all about using emerging technology and challenging the media itself, so the output is very different...

Cracking Habit

Single Exhibition, 2020
They have their own names, identities, and personalities that all stem from my own experiences and memories.I created sound vessels that stored digitally recorded sounds of my body, each containing different emotions and thoughts. It later became an individual that has its own personality, almost as a weird mutation came from my body, to speak about its desire and emotions for me...




Boston Cyber Arts

Group Exhibition, 2020

WETWIRED in the MEATSPACE invites you to dip your toes into the slipstream of reality between screen and substance, between science and superstition—where the beautiful and bizarre are transformed from the digital imagination into fleshy manifestations. In this exhibit, artists conjure alternate realities in which beach trash and aliens are one and the same, microscopic worlds become inhabitable, dream monsters walk the earth, and meat is grown in outer space...

D+M Biennial 2019

Group Exhibition, 2019

In the field of space exploration, the overview effect refers to a shift in thinking and feeling that some astronauts experience in observing Earth from outer space—an overwhelming realization of their place in a much larger universe....

The Evolution of Language

Granoff Center, Brown University, 2019

The Evolution of Language and Behavior in a Cyberspace considers VR ...