Innovation Showcases
Asynchronous Session
UNIQUEWAYS Podcast Report View Digital Media
Innovation Showcase Thomas Girard
The podcast called UNIQUEWAYS is inspired by a series of talk/ workshops I give at conferences and universities and meet-ups. It’s had broad appeal touring the international conference circuit, with hundreds of participants at some amazing venues. The podcast is more than just design, it shines light on the human side, and specifically on the unique angle that people have in doing what they do. This session considers the podcast and is built around a method called role play, which uses voice and writing to make, test, and iterate an idea.
Street Photography - Looking for Meaning and Finding It! View Digital Media
Innovation Showcase Leonard Bernstein
It was the great Dorothea Lange who said, “The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” But just what is that way of seeing? And what can a good photograph teach us, technically, about how to see people and things with meaning we can respect? I began to learn the answers to these questions in the summer of 1974 when I started to photograph seriously. I fell in love with photography then and felt I was lucky to have finally found something that meant so much to me that I never wanted to stop learning about it. I didn’t know that my good fortune was only beginning, for photography was to lead me to the explanation of beauty and what it can teach each of us about how we need to see the world and people—including ourselves. "All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves." This landmark principle, stated by the great American philosopher Eli Siegel, is at the heart of Aesthetic Realism, the education he founded in 1941. I’ve had the thrill of testing it over the years in thousands of instances, from the first known photograph taken by the French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce around 1826, to the most modern work of today. The photographic image, I have learned, is an aesthetic object and a democratic blueprint for life.
Unification-Oriented Sentiment and Korean Dramas' Dual Strategy for Portraying North Korea: TV and OTT Dramas During the Moon Jae In Administration View Digital Media
Innovation Showcase Toby Lynn Huter
After a decade of conservative politics, President Moon Jae In ran for president on the platform of engaging with North Korea through soft power. This time period gave rise to one of the most popular Korean dramas of all time; “Crash Landing on You”. The popularity of this drama can show a warming towards the idea of seeing North Koreans as ‘just like us’. This study analyzes the significance of the image of North Korea in “Crash Landing on You” then puts it in conversation with earlier dramas to discuss the evolution of the image of North Korea. It will then address the significance of using dramas as a medium of analysis as a family-friendly form of entertainment by examining images of North Korea through films. In looking at how North Korean characters are portrayed, the study will discuss the strategy of bringing North Korean characters into a more positive light in South Korean public consciousness. Finally, this paper looks at South Korean popular culture’s attempts to display unification of the Korean peninsula. Through data collected around public opinion, the author examines how and why unification themed media has historically been unpopular in popular culture while dramas and films that display cooperation across the border seem to gain more interest. Through this study, the author hopes to further understand how policial images are displayed in popular culture and the impact that political events can affect the ways certain messages are received.
