The goal of the Lifestyle academic discipline is to produce graduates who are capable of producing creative and experimental designs stemming from values and initiatives within the living environment.
Students gain experience and expertise through a well-balanced fusion of theory and practice. Areas of focus include: observing users’ environments, understanding behavioral changes in people within a social and cultural context, conceptualization, and problem-solving. The discipline consists of the Living Furniture Design, Smart Product Design and Floral Design Departments.
Living Furniture Design
The Living Furniture Design Department trains cultural industry leaders who create designs with stories and emotional values. The focus is on individual philosophies and perspectives, creating designs for living goods, living furniture, and cultural goods, and offering new lifestyle values and services. Students cultivate the ability to understand technologies and materials related to lifestyle trends, for the self-production and self-promotion of goods in a flexible manufacturing system, based on studio-centered and authorial designs.
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Smart Product Design
The Department of Smart Product Design aims for field-oriented specialized education for the development of local communities based on future industrial mass production, and provides differentiated industry-academia collaborative education centered on studio and project. In particular, the curriculum balances creative planning, problem-solving, and logical thinking skills with in-depth exploration of digital and advanced science and technology to foster the next generation of practical industrial designers with a challenging experimental spirit and creativity.
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Floral Design
Floral Design is a design that creates and expresses the beauty of flowers and nature according to the purpose, mainly based on plants, or the image of plants, and is a lifestyle design that focuses on human’s organic life. The floral design department trains designers who are able to effectively apply the flower design to life by accumulating the value of an eco-friendly design, as well as harmonising intellectual ability, and emotional and technical skills.
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