Katrina Hu – Looking Outwards – 08

Meejin Yoon – Eyeo 2015

Meejin Yoon is a Korean-American architect and designer. She graduated from Cornell University with a degree in Architecture and then from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. In 2014, she was appointed as Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s first female head of the Department of Architecture. Currently, she works as the dean of the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University.

Most of her work focuses on interaction in public space. She seeks to bridge technology and play within the public sphere. One of her projects focuses on an urban, public, and interactive space that responds to people that move through the field. The lights in the field would correlate with people’s movements in the field. I admire that she seeks to bring people together in these public spaces. For example, in the lecture, she mentions how people would actually invent games to play while in the space. I also admire how many of her projects focus on smart materials and renewable energy. Her projects seem to always involve the environment and the natural world.

Yoon presents her work effectively by always providing images and graphics that show her development process, as well as photos of people actually interacting with her designs.