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The Initial slides I kicked off my keynote about Insight Realm: Externalizing Cognitive Loops through Embodied XR Interaction at Immersive Acts: Disrupting the Frame by Otherwise Narratives @royalcollegeofart

Track 3: Immersive Innovation Design: Bodies, Sensors, and New Narratives

How our mind and body works in space: embodied and spatial cognition.

I’ve been talking recently with Sacha Wares about storytelling in XR, theatre, and narrative experiences, and it brought me back to questions I’ve been exploring since my Master’s studies across media, experience design, narrative structures, and story writing. Experience…

What has always fascinated me is not only storytelling itself, but how narrative operates emotionally, psychologically, and experientially.

Even then, the neurological relationship between storytelling and empathy was becoming an important topic in design and media research, particularly around reading, narrative immersion, and emotional identification: how stories activate the brain, shape emotion, influence perception, construct identification, and ultimately affect human behavior.

Today, in the age of AI, adaptive systems, and algorithmically mediated environments, these questions feel even more urgent.

Narrative is no longer simply “content.”
It increasingly functions as infrastructure.

I recently wrote a reflection exploring storytelling as a perceptual and emotional system — its power to deepen empathy and human connection, but also its ability to manipulate attention, reinforce emotional loops, and shape collective perception in real time.

There is still so much more to discuss...
from Sacha’s perspective on theatre and narrative delivery in immersive media,
to my perspective on narrative systems within experience and interaction design.

(This is a conversation I hope, with Sacha and others to continue exploring further — especially as increasingly diverse fields and disciplines come together to shape the future of immersive and XR experiences.)

Sharing the full reflection below.
https://open.substack.com/pub/binnalee/p/when-storytelling-becomes-infrastructure?r=63gvln&utm_medium=ios

Insight Realm is selected for the IMPULSE programme @immersivetechweek — Rotterdam, June 23-25.
@katoenhuis

Glad to be part of this alongside such a wonderful group of creators and joining the conversations of immersive tech and design.

One step at a time.

🔗 in the bio

Insight Realm is selected for the IMPULSE programme @immersivetechweek — Rotterdam, June 23-25.
@katoenhuis

Glad to be part of this alongside such a wonderful group of creators and joining the conversations of immersive tech and design.

One step at a time.

🔗 in the bio

What an incredible day getting back to the basics of making! ✨

A huge thank you to Gary and David at @preciousplasticnyc for hosting our very first "Creators Collective" workshop. We loved stepping away from our screens to dive deep into the world of injection molding and circular manufacturing.

We’re just getting started with the Creators Collective series, and we want to know what’s next on your list.

What skills or processes do you want us to explore in our next session? Drop your ideas in the comments below!

#wid #widnyc #idsa #idsanyc #womenindesign #preciousplastic #creatorscollective #industrialdesign #sustainabledesign #injectionmolding #nycdesign #circulardesign #makersofthetight #productdesign

What an incredible day getting back to the basics of making! ✨

A huge thank you to Gary and David at @preciousplasticnyc for hosting our very first "Creators Collective" workshop. We loved stepping away from our screens to dive deep into the world of injection molding and circular manufacturing.

We’re just getting started with the Creators Collective series, and we want to know what’s next on your list.

What skills or processes do you want us to explore in our next session? Drop your ideas in the comments below!

#wid #widnyc #idsa #idsanyc #womenindesign #preciousplastic #creatorscollective #industrialdesign #sustainabledesign #injectionmolding #nycdesign #circulardesign #makersofthetight #productdesign

What an incredible day getting back to the basics of making! ✨

A huge thank you to Gary and David at @preciousplasticnyc for hosting our very first "Creators Collective" workshop. We loved stepping away from our screens to dive deep into the world of injection molding and circular manufacturing.

We’re just getting started with the Creators Collective series, and we want to know what’s next on your list.

What skills or processes do you want us to explore in our next session? Drop your ideas in the comments below!

#wid #widnyc #idsa #idsanyc #womenindesign #preciousplastic #creatorscollective #industrialdesign #sustainabledesign #injectionmolding #nycdesign #circulardesign #makersofthetight #productdesign

What an incredible day getting back to the basics of making! ✨

A huge thank you to Gary and David at @preciousplasticnyc for hosting our very first "Creators Collective" workshop. We loved stepping away from our screens to dive deep into the world of injection molding and circular manufacturing.

We’re just getting started with the Creators Collective series, and we want to know what’s next on your list.

What skills or processes do you want us to explore in our next session? Drop your ideas in the comments below!

#wid #widnyc #idsa #idsanyc #womenindesign #preciousplastic #creatorscollective #industrialdesign #sustainabledesign #injectionmolding #nycdesign #circulardesign #makersofthetight #productdesign

What an incredible day getting back to the basics of making! ✨

A huge thank you to Gary and David at @preciousplasticnyc for hosting our very first "Creators Collective" workshop. We loved stepping away from our screens to dive deep into the world of injection molding and circular manufacturing.

We’re just getting started with the Creators Collective series, and we want to know what’s next on your list.

What skills or processes do you want us to explore in our next session? Drop your ideas in the comments below!

#wid #widnyc #idsa #idsanyc #womenindesign #preciousplastic #creatorscollective #industrialdesign #sustainabledesign #injectionmolding #nycdesign #circulardesign #makersofthetight #productdesign

What an incredible day getting back to the basics of making! ✨

A huge thank you to Gary and David at @preciousplasticnyc for hosting our very first "Creators Collective" workshop. We loved stepping away from our screens to dive deep into the world of injection molding and circular manufacturing.

We’re just getting started with the Creators Collective series, and we want to know what’s next on your list.

What skills or processes do you want us to explore in our next session? Drop your ideas in the comments below!

#wid #widnyc #idsa #idsanyc #womenindesign #preciousplastic #creatorscollective #industrialdesign #sustainabledesign #injectionmolding #nycdesign #circulardesign #makersofthetight #productdesign

What an incredible day getting back to the basics of making! ✨

A huge thank you to Gary and David at @preciousplasticnyc for hosting our very first "Creators Collective" workshop. We loved stepping away from our screens to dive deep into the world of injection molding and circular manufacturing.

We’re just getting started with the Creators Collective series, and we want to know what’s next on your list.

What skills or processes do you want us to explore in our next session? Drop your ideas in the comments below!

#wid #widnyc #idsa #idsanyc #womenindesign #preciousplastic #creatorscollective #industrialdesign #sustainabledesign #injectionmolding #nycdesign #circulardesign #makersofthetight #productdesign

It was so delightful to be part of the Playful Hackathon as a juror. So proud and emotional to see Parsons BFA Design and Technology students and the @innovationcenterlabs made this hackathon happened.

under Maya’s guidance, they built the whole thing themselves. From forming a community to opening the doors beyond Parsons, welcoming participants from in and outside the school. So good to see high schoolers joined.
Every detail was thoughtfully crafted with care and purpose. These organizers had been hackathon participants themselves, shaped their own vision from those experiences, and turned it into something meaningful for their community. Experience into sharing experiences. And superbly the brilliant and thoughtful mentors joined and contributed to the hackathon as well 🤟🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

The projects were meaningful, caring, fun, witty, and full of heart —all themed around New York City. There was a refreshing mix of thoughtfulness and playfulness that was genuinely exciting to witness. And importantly, technology never overwhelmed the concept; it stayed in service of the idea, exactly as it should be.

It was one of those moments where you walk into a room and walk out having learned the most. Watching the next generation tackle real challenges with creativity and genuine passion is something. Always delightfully surprising.

A huge congratulations to all the participating teams! (Wonderful to see my students sophomore and seiner working as a team :) @divijadiwan_ @lakshita Sethi 🔥) your work spoke for itself. And to the student organizers: you should be incredibly proud of what you built. 🙌

playful, purposeful, and people-first :)

Creative Technology Club:
@katcho_.w.s Minjung Cho , Daisy Warren @hi_daisy_here_ Seryeong Jeang
Innovation Center:
@keii.wa Kelly Su, @isaxt.tedesco Tedesco, Isabel Zlatev, @radhikaa1801 Malpani

Mentors:
Courtney Snavely, Colby L., Eloise Yalovitser, @grass.obj Grace Park, Minkyu Kim, John Travis Hunter

Judges
John Sharp, Brad MacDonald, Alex Levin, Michael Markman, and myself

@parsons_dt

It was so delightful to be part of the Playful Hackathon as a juror. So proud and emotional to see Parsons BFA Design and Technology students and the @innovationcenterlabs made this hackathon happened.

under Maya’s guidance, they built the whole thing themselves. From forming a community to opening the doors beyond Parsons, welcoming participants from in and outside the school. So good to see high schoolers joined.
Every detail was thoughtfully crafted with care and purpose. These organizers had been hackathon participants themselves, shaped their own vision from those experiences, and turned it into something meaningful for their community. Experience into sharing experiences. And superbly the brilliant and thoughtful mentors joined and contributed to the hackathon as well 🤟🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

The projects were meaningful, caring, fun, witty, and full of heart —all themed around New York City. There was a refreshing mix of thoughtfulness and playfulness that was genuinely exciting to witness. And importantly, technology never overwhelmed the concept; it stayed in service of the idea, exactly as it should be.

It was one of those moments where you walk into a room and walk out having learned the most. Watching the next generation tackle real challenges with creativity and genuine passion is something. Always delightfully surprising.

A huge congratulations to all the participating teams! (Wonderful to see my students sophomore and seiner working as a team :) @divijadiwan_ @lakshita Sethi 🔥) your work spoke for itself. And to the student organizers: you should be incredibly proud of what you built. 🙌

playful, purposeful, and people-first :)

Creative Technology Club:
@katcho_.w.s Minjung Cho , Daisy Warren @hi_daisy_here_ Seryeong Jeang
Innovation Center:
@keii.wa Kelly Su, @isaxt.tedesco Tedesco, Isabel Zlatev, @radhikaa1801 Malpani

Mentors:
Courtney Snavely, Colby L., Eloise Yalovitser, @grass.obj Grace Park, Minkyu Kim, John Travis Hunter

Judges
John Sharp, Brad MacDonald, Alex Levin, Michael Markman, and myself

@parsons_dt

It was so delightful to be part of the Playful Hackathon as a juror. So proud and emotional to see Parsons BFA Design and Technology students and the @innovationcenterlabs made this hackathon happened.

under Maya’s guidance, they built the whole thing themselves. From forming a community to opening the doors beyond Parsons, welcoming participants from in and outside the school. So good to see high schoolers joined.
Every detail was thoughtfully crafted with care and purpose. These organizers had been hackathon participants themselves, shaped their own vision from those experiences, and turned it into something meaningful for their community. Experience into sharing experiences. And superbly the brilliant and thoughtful mentors joined and contributed to the hackathon as well 🤟🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

The projects were meaningful, caring, fun, witty, and full of heart —all themed around New York City. There was a refreshing mix of thoughtfulness and playfulness that was genuinely exciting to witness. And importantly, technology never overwhelmed the concept; it stayed in service of the idea, exactly as it should be.

It was one of those moments where you walk into a room and walk out having learned the most. Watching the next generation tackle real challenges with creativity and genuine passion is something. Always delightfully surprising.

A huge congratulations to all the participating teams! (Wonderful to see my students sophomore and seiner working as a team :) @divijadiwan_ @lakshita Sethi 🔥) your work spoke for itself. And to the student organizers: you should be incredibly proud of what you built. 🙌

playful, purposeful, and people-first :)

Creative Technology Club:
@katcho_.w.s Minjung Cho , Daisy Warren @hi_daisy_here_ Seryeong Jeang
Innovation Center:
@keii.wa Kelly Su, @isaxt.tedesco Tedesco, Isabel Zlatev, @radhikaa1801 Malpani

Mentors:
Courtney Snavely, Colby L., Eloise Yalovitser, @grass.obj Grace Park, Minkyu Kim, John Travis Hunter

Judges
John Sharp, Brad MacDonald, Alex Levin, Michael Markman, and myself

@parsons_dt

It was so delightful to be part of the Playful Hackathon as a juror. So proud and emotional to see Parsons BFA Design and Technology students and the @innovationcenterlabs made this hackathon happened.

under Maya’s guidance, they built the whole thing themselves. From forming a community to opening the doors beyond Parsons, welcoming participants from in and outside the school. So good to see high schoolers joined.
Every detail was thoughtfully crafted with care and purpose. These organizers had been hackathon participants themselves, shaped their own vision from those experiences, and turned it into something meaningful for their community. Experience into sharing experiences. And superbly the brilliant and thoughtful mentors joined and contributed to the hackathon as well 🤟🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

The projects were meaningful, caring, fun, witty, and full of heart —all themed around New York City. There was a refreshing mix of thoughtfulness and playfulness that was genuinely exciting to witness. And importantly, technology never overwhelmed the concept; it stayed in service of the idea, exactly as it should be.

It was one of those moments where you walk into a room and walk out having learned the most. Watching the next generation tackle real challenges with creativity and genuine passion is something. Always delightfully surprising.

A huge congratulations to all the participating teams! (Wonderful to see my students sophomore and seiner working as a team :) @divijadiwan_ @lakshita Sethi 🔥) your work spoke for itself. And to the student organizers: you should be incredibly proud of what you built. 🙌

playful, purposeful, and people-first :)

Creative Technology Club:
@katcho_.w.s Minjung Cho , Daisy Warren @hi_daisy_here_ Seryeong Jeang
Innovation Center:
@keii.wa Kelly Su, @isaxt.tedesco Tedesco, Isabel Zlatev, @radhikaa1801 Malpani

Mentors:
Courtney Snavely, Colby L., Eloise Yalovitser, @grass.obj Grace Park, Minkyu Kim, John Travis Hunter

Judges
John Sharp, Brad MacDonald, Alex Levin, Michael Markman, and myself

@parsons_dt

It was so delightful to be part of the Playful Hackathon as a juror. So proud and emotional to see Parsons BFA Design and Technology students and the @innovationcenterlabs made this hackathon happened.

under Maya’s guidance, they built the whole thing themselves. From forming a community to opening the doors beyond Parsons, welcoming participants from in and outside the school. So good to see high schoolers joined.
Every detail was thoughtfully crafted with care and purpose. These organizers had been hackathon participants themselves, shaped their own vision from those experiences, and turned it into something meaningful for their community. Experience into sharing experiences. And superbly the brilliant and thoughtful mentors joined and contributed to the hackathon as well 🤟🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

The projects were meaningful, caring, fun, witty, and full of heart —all themed around New York City. There was a refreshing mix of thoughtfulness and playfulness that was genuinely exciting to witness. And importantly, technology never overwhelmed the concept; it stayed in service of the idea, exactly as it should be.

It was one of those moments where you walk into a room and walk out having learned the most. Watching the next generation tackle real challenges with creativity and genuine passion is something. Always delightfully surprising.

A huge congratulations to all the participating teams! (Wonderful to see my students sophomore and seiner working as a team :) @divijadiwan_ @lakshita Sethi 🔥) your work spoke for itself. And to the student organizers: you should be incredibly proud of what you built. 🙌

playful, purposeful, and people-first :)

Creative Technology Club:
@katcho_.w.s Minjung Cho , Daisy Warren @hi_daisy_here_ Seryeong Jeang
Innovation Center:
@keii.wa Kelly Su, @isaxt.tedesco Tedesco, Isabel Zlatev, @radhikaa1801 Malpani

Mentors:
Courtney Snavely, Colby L., Eloise Yalovitser, @grass.obj Grace Park, Minkyu Kim, John Travis Hunter

Judges
John Sharp, Brad MacDonald, Alex Levin, Michael Markman, and myself

@parsons_dt

It was so delightful to be part of the Playful Hackathon as a juror. So proud and emotional to see Parsons BFA Design and Technology students and the @innovationcenterlabs made this hackathon happened.

under Maya’s guidance, they built the whole thing themselves. From forming a community to opening the doors beyond Parsons, welcoming participants from in and outside the school. So good to see high schoolers joined.
Every detail was thoughtfully crafted with care and purpose. These organizers had been hackathon participants themselves, shaped their own vision from those experiences, and turned it into something meaningful for their community. Experience into sharing experiences. And superbly the brilliant and thoughtful mentors joined and contributed to the hackathon as well 🤟🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

The projects were meaningful, caring, fun, witty, and full of heart —all themed around New York City. There was a refreshing mix of thoughtfulness and playfulness that was genuinely exciting to witness. And importantly, technology never overwhelmed the concept; it stayed in service of the idea, exactly as it should be.

It was one of those moments where you walk into a room and walk out having learned the most. Watching the next generation tackle real challenges with creativity and genuine passion is something. Always delightfully surprising.

A huge congratulations to all the participating teams! (Wonderful to see my students sophomore and seiner working as a team :) @divijadiwan_ @lakshita Sethi 🔥) your work spoke for itself. And to the student organizers: you should be incredibly proud of what you built. 🙌

playful, purposeful, and people-first :)

Creative Technology Club:
@katcho_.w.s Minjung Cho , Daisy Warren @hi_daisy_here_ Seryeong Jeang
Innovation Center:
@keii.wa Kelly Su, @isaxt.tedesco Tedesco, Isabel Zlatev, @radhikaa1801 Malpani

Mentors:
Courtney Snavely, Colby L., Eloise Yalovitser, @grass.obj Grace Park, Minkyu Kim, John Travis Hunter

Judges
John Sharp, Brad MacDonald, Alex Levin, Michael Markman, and myself

@parsons_dt

It was so delightful to be part of the Playful Hackathon as a juror. So proud and emotional to see Parsons BFA Design and Technology students and the @innovationcenterlabs made this hackathon happened.

under Maya’s guidance, they built the whole thing themselves. From forming a community to opening the doors beyond Parsons, welcoming participants from in and outside the school. So good to see high schoolers joined.
Every detail was thoughtfully crafted with care and purpose. These organizers had been hackathon participants themselves, shaped their own vision from those experiences, and turned it into something meaningful for their community. Experience into sharing experiences. And superbly the brilliant and thoughtful mentors joined and contributed to the hackathon as well 🤟🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

The projects were meaningful, caring, fun, witty, and full of heart —all themed around New York City. There was a refreshing mix of thoughtfulness and playfulness that was genuinely exciting to witness. And importantly, technology never overwhelmed the concept; it stayed in service of the idea, exactly as it should be.

It was one of those moments where you walk into a room and walk out having learned the most. Watching the next generation tackle real challenges with creativity and genuine passion is something. Always delightfully surprising.

A huge congratulations to all the participating teams! (Wonderful to see my students sophomore and seiner working as a team :) @divijadiwan_ @lakshita Sethi 🔥) your work spoke for itself. And to the student organizers: you should be incredibly proud of what you built. 🙌

playful, purposeful, and people-first :)

Creative Technology Club:
@katcho_.w.s Minjung Cho , Daisy Warren @hi_daisy_here_ Seryeong Jeang
Innovation Center:
@keii.wa Kelly Su, @isaxt.tedesco Tedesco, Isabel Zlatev, @radhikaa1801 Malpani

Mentors:
Courtney Snavely, Colby L., Eloise Yalovitser, @grass.obj Grace Park, Minkyu Kim, John Travis Hunter

Judges
John Sharp, Brad MacDonald, Alex Levin, Michael Markman, and myself

@parsons_dt

It was so delightful to be part of the Playful Hackathon as a juror. So proud and emotional to see Parsons BFA Design and Technology students and the @innovationcenterlabs made this hackathon happened.

under Maya’s guidance, they built the whole thing themselves. From forming a community to opening the doors beyond Parsons, welcoming participants from in and outside the school. So good to see high schoolers joined.
Every detail was thoughtfully crafted with care and purpose. These organizers had been hackathon participants themselves, shaped their own vision from those experiences, and turned it into something meaningful for their community. Experience into sharing experiences. And superbly the brilliant and thoughtful mentors joined and contributed to the hackathon as well 🤟🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

The projects were meaningful, caring, fun, witty, and full of heart —all themed around New York City. There was a refreshing mix of thoughtfulness and playfulness that was genuinely exciting to witness. And importantly, technology never overwhelmed the concept; it stayed in service of the idea, exactly as it should be.

It was one of those moments where you walk into a room and walk out having learned the most. Watching the next generation tackle real challenges with creativity and genuine passion is something. Always delightfully surprising.

A huge congratulations to all the participating teams! (Wonderful to see my students sophomore and seiner working as a team :) @divijadiwan_ @lakshita Sethi 🔥) your work spoke for itself. And to the student organizers: you should be incredibly proud of what you built. 🙌

playful, purposeful, and people-first :)

Creative Technology Club:
@katcho_.w.s Minjung Cho , Daisy Warren @hi_daisy_here_ Seryeong Jeang
Innovation Center:
@keii.wa Kelly Su, @isaxt.tedesco Tedesco, Isabel Zlatev, @radhikaa1801 Malpani

Mentors:
Courtney Snavely, Colby L., Eloise Yalovitser, @grass.obj Grace Park, Minkyu Kim, John Travis Hunter

Judges
John Sharp, Brad MacDonald, Alex Levin, Michael Markman, and myself

@parsons_dt

Pulled out my old technical sketches from my BFA days.(2003-4. sophomore and junior years)

I forgot how deeply I lived inside these lines — every curve, every section view, every dimension notation. I genuinely loved this. Imagination and creativity just flowed. Days and nights of passion, inspirations through design books and readings…. and a kind of hope that flooded everything. Design felt infinite.

Industrial and product design wasn’t just a major. It was a way of seeing.

Ergonomics, Accessibility in mouse design, digital camera design, furniture design, concept car design, you name it … Less is More?! lol flooded with ideas of all kinds of designs!!!
And that obsession took me deep into concept car design. Back then I had most car names and features memorized — makes, models, details. All of it. 😎

There were no 3D printers. Everything was built with bare hands. Wood and metal work. PVC mockups. Pink foam, sandpaper, glue you name it. Hours of it. That was just Tuesday. Staying nights in school and dorm rooms with friends… ✨💜

In one course, we built an interactive piano played through body movement. No Arduino. No Raspberry Pi — Arduino didn’t even exist yet. Just pure electronics, resistors, capacitors, sensors, all hand-soldered. Taught by a visiting professor from Seoul National University who was doing what we’d now call Physical Computing — before that term even had a name. He walked in and completely rewired how we thought about interaction. Genuinely mind-bending. 😳🤯

These sketches carried all of that with them — all the way to New York.
I know why I brought them. They remind me where my obsession with interaction, embodiment, and making actually began — long before the research and the frameworks had names for it.

my favorite pen and pencil, hi tec C, Rotring and Prismacolor — classic! ✒️✏️ 🥹

Some things you don’t leave behind.

What’s yours? ✨

@womenindesignnyc @idsa_nyc @idsathenewschool #i̇ndustrialdesign #productdesign #technicalsketch

Pulled out my old technical sketches from my BFA days.(2003-4. sophomore and junior years)

I forgot how deeply I lived inside these lines — every curve, every section view, every dimension notation. I genuinely loved this. Imagination and creativity just flowed. Days and nights of passion, inspirations through design books and readings…. and a kind of hope that flooded everything. Design felt infinite.

Industrial and product design wasn’t just a major. It was a way of seeing.

Ergonomics, Accessibility in mouse design, digital camera design, furniture design, concept car design, you name it … Less is More?! lol flooded with ideas of all kinds of designs!!!
And that obsession took me deep into concept car design. Back then I had most car names and features memorized — makes, models, details. All of it. 😎

There were no 3D printers. Everything was built with bare hands. Wood and metal work. PVC mockups. Pink foam, sandpaper, glue you name it. Hours of it. That was just Tuesday. Staying nights in school and dorm rooms with friends… ✨💜

In one course, we built an interactive piano played through body movement. No Arduino. No Raspberry Pi — Arduino didn’t even exist yet. Just pure electronics, resistors, capacitors, sensors, all hand-soldered. Taught by a visiting professor from Seoul National University who was doing what we’d now call Physical Computing — before that term even had a name. He walked in and completely rewired how we thought about interaction. Genuinely mind-bending. 😳🤯

These sketches carried all of that with them — all the way to New York.
I know why I brought them. They remind me where my obsession with interaction, embodiment, and making actually began — long before the research and the frameworks had names for it.

my favorite pen and pencil, hi tec C, Rotring and Prismacolor — classic! ✒️✏️ 🥹

Some things you don’t leave behind.

What’s yours? ✨

@womenindesignnyc @idsa_nyc @idsathenewschool #i̇ndustrialdesign #productdesign #technicalsketch

Pulled out my old technical sketches from my BFA days.(2003-4. sophomore and junior years)

I forgot how deeply I lived inside these lines — every curve, every section view, every dimension notation. I genuinely loved this. Imagination and creativity just flowed. Days and nights of passion, inspirations through design books and readings…. and a kind of hope that flooded everything. Design felt infinite.

Industrial and product design wasn’t just a major. It was a way of seeing.

Ergonomics, Accessibility in mouse design, digital camera design, furniture design, concept car design, you name it … Less is More?! lol flooded with ideas of all kinds of designs!!!
And that obsession took me deep into concept car design. Back then I had most car names and features memorized — makes, models, details. All of it. 😎

There were no 3D printers. Everything was built with bare hands. Wood and metal work. PVC mockups. Pink foam, sandpaper, glue you name it. Hours of it. That was just Tuesday. Staying nights in school and dorm rooms with friends… ✨💜

In one course, we built an interactive piano played through body movement. No Arduino. No Raspberry Pi — Arduino didn’t even exist yet. Just pure electronics, resistors, capacitors, sensors, all hand-soldered. Taught by a visiting professor from Seoul National University who was doing what we’d now call Physical Computing — before that term even had a name. He walked in and completely rewired how we thought about interaction. Genuinely mind-bending. 😳🤯

These sketches carried all of that with them — all the way to New York.
I know why I brought them. They remind me where my obsession with interaction, embodiment, and making actually began — long before the research and the frameworks had names for it.

my favorite pen and pencil, hi tec C, Rotring and Prismacolor — classic! ✒️✏️ 🥹

Some things you don’t leave behind.

What’s yours? ✨

@womenindesignnyc @idsa_nyc @idsathenewschool #i̇ndustrialdesign #productdesign #technicalsketch

Meet the 2026 IDSA WID NYC chapter team ✨
 We’re excited to welcome @_leebinna as our Vice Chair! Get to know Binna and swipe to see some of her work →

Building on the legacy of human factors in industrial and product design, Binna brings a focus on embodied and spatial interaction—expanding human-centered design into environmental and experiential dimensions. Her work embraces non-binary, semiotic, and ecologically balanced understandings of human nature, transforming cognitive biases into designable dynamics that shape perception and interaction.

#WomenInDesign #IDSA #WIDNYC

Meet the 2026 IDSA WID NYC chapter team ✨
 We’re excited to welcome @_leebinna as our Vice Chair! Get to know Binna and swipe to see some of her work →

Building on the legacy of human factors in industrial and product design, Binna brings a focus on embodied and spatial interaction—expanding human-centered design into environmental and experiential dimensions. Her work embraces non-binary, semiotic, and ecologically balanced understandings of human nature, transforming cognitive biases into designable dynamics that shape perception and interaction.

#WomenInDesign #IDSA #WIDNYC

Meet the 2026 IDSA WID NYC chapter team ✨
 We’re excited to welcome @_leebinna as our Vice Chair! Get to know Binna and swipe to see some of her work →

Building on the legacy of human factors in industrial and product design, Binna brings a focus on embodied and spatial interaction—expanding human-centered design into environmental and experiential dimensions. Her work embraces non-binary, semiotic, and ecologically balanced understandings of human nature, transforming cognitive biases into designable dynamics that shape perception and interaction.

#WomenInDesign #IDSA #WIDNYC

Meet the 2026 IDSA WID NYC chapter team ✨
 We’re excited to welcome @_leebinna as our Vice Chair! Get to know Binna and swipe to see some of her work →

Building on the legacy of human factors in industrial and product design, Binna brings a focus on embodied and spatial interaction—expanding human-centered design into environmental and experiential dimensions. Her work embraces non-binary, semiotic, and ecologically balanced understandings of human nature, transforming cognitive biases into designable dynamics that shape perception and interaction.

#WomenInDesign #IDSA #WIDNYC

Most view AI as a shortcut—an efficient tool for “polished” outputs that often flattens the human creative process. But in this rush for perfection, a critical question arises: Are we losing our creative soul to automation?

AI Artist & Digital Designer Jeehyun Kim @an_realphoto and Cognitive Systems Strategist & Experience Architecture Binna Lee @_leebinna have explored this tension. This session is the culmination of a dialogue between a Master approaching AI-generated art through a lens of evolving subversion and a Strategist mapping cognitive structures. Together, they peel back the layers of human creation to find where “joy” lives beneath the shadow of automation.

DATE & TIME
✹ EST (New York): Feb 27th (Fri) | 7 PM
✹ KST (Seoul): Feb 28th (Sat) | 9 AM

✹ ZOOM Registration Link in the Bio ✹

We will explore the questions that elude creators today:

✹ The Cognitive Feedback Loop: What happens to imagination when human intent meets the machine’s “uncontrollable” logic?

✹ The Jitter and the Joy: Navigating the “messy middle” of creation where we lose control to find radical insight.

✹ Recovering Sensation: Moving from digital fluidity back to the intentionality of creative craft to evolve a deeper, more embodied creative joy.

We will unpack this journey through three stages:

✹ Amplification: The initial spark of expanded expression.

✹ Cognitive Rupture: Navigating the “messy middle” where authorship blurs.

✹ Recovering Sensation: Returning to human craftsmanship by using AI as a mirror for our own thoughts.

Please, join this conversation and share your reflections and discoveries with us!
register your spot via zoom registration! :)

Most view AI as a shortcut—an efficient tool for “polished” outputs that often flattens the human creative process. But in this rush for perfection, a critical question arises: Are we losing our creative soul to automation?

AI Artist & Digital Designer Jeehyun Kim @an_realphoto and Cognitive Systems Strategist & Experience Architecture Binna Lee @_leebinna have explored this tension. This session is the culmination of a dialogue between a Master approaching AI-generated art through a lens of evolving subversion and a Strategist mapping cognitive structures. Together, they peel back the layers of human creation to find where “joy” lives beneath the shadow of automation.

DATE & TIME
✹ EST (New York): Feb 27th (Fri) | 7 PM
✹ KST (Seoul): Feb 28th (Sat) | 9 AM

✹ ZOOM Registration Link in the Bio ✹

We will explore the questions that elude creators today:

✹ The Cognitive Feedback Loop: What happens to imagination when human intent meets the machine’s “uncontrollable” logic?

✹ The Jitter and the Joy: Navigating the “messy middle” of creation where we lose control to find radical insight.

✹ Recovering Sensation: Moving from digital fluidity back to the intentionality of creative craft to evolve a deeper, more embodied creative joy.

We will unpack this journey through three stages:

✹ Amplification: The initial spark of expanded expression.

✹ Cognitive Rupture: Navigating the “messy middle” where authorship blurs.

✹ Recovering Sensation: Returning to human craftsmanship by using AI as a mirror for our own thoughts.

Please, join this conversation and share your reflections and discoveries with us!
register your spot via zoom registration! :)

Most view AI as a shortcut—an efficient tool for “polished” outputs that often flattens the human creative process. But in this rush for perfection, a critical question arises: Are we losing our creative soul to automation?

AI Artist & Digital Designer Jeehyun Kim @an_realphoto and Cognitive Systems Strategist & Experience Architecture Binna Lee @_leebinna have explored this tension. This session is the culmination of a dialogue between a Master approaching AI-generated art through a lens of evolving subversion and a Strategist mapping cognitive structures. Together, they peel back the layers of human creation to find where “joy” lives beneath the shadow of automation.

DATE & TIME
✹ EST (New York): Feb 27th (Fri) | 7 PM
✹ KST (Seoul): Feb 28th (Sat) | 9 AM

✹ ZOOM Registration Link in the Bio ✹

We will explore the questions that elude creators today:

✹ The Cognitive Feedback Loop: What happens to imagination when human intent meets the machine’s “uncontrollable” logic?

✹ The Jitter and the Joy: Navigating the “messy middle” of creation where we lose control to find radical insight.

✹ Recovering Sensation: Moving from digital fluidity back to the intentionality of creative craft to evolve a deeper, more embodied creative joy.

We will unpack this journey through three stages:

✹ Amplification: The initial spark of expanded expression.

✹ Cognitive Rupture: Navigating the “messy middle” where authorship blurs.

✹ Recovering Sensation: Returning to human craftsmanship by using AI as a mirror for our own thoughts.

Please, join this conversation and share your reflections and discoveries with us!
register your spot via zoom registration! :)

Most view AI as a shortcut—an efficient tool for “polished” outputs that often flattens the human creative process. But in this rush for perfection, a critical question arises: Are we losing our creative soul to automation?

AI Artist & Digital Designer Jeehyun Kim @an_realphoto and Cognitive Systems Strategist & Experience Architecture Binna Lee @_leebinna have explored this tension. This session is the culmination of a dialogue between a Master approaching AI-generated art through a lens of evolving subversion and a Strategist mapping cognitive structures. Together, they peel back the layers of human creation to find where “joy” lives beneath the shadow of automation.

DATE & TIME
✹ EST (New York): Feb 27th (Fri) | 7 PM
✹ KST (Seoul): Feb 28th (Sat) | 9 AM

✹ ZOOM Registration Link in the Bio ✹

We will explore the questions that elude creators today:

✹ The Cognitive Feedback Loop: What happens to imagination when human intent meets the machine’s “uncontrollable” logic?

✹ The Jitter and the Joy: Navigating the “messy middle” of creation where we lose control to find radical insight.

✹ Recovering Sensation: Moving from digital fluidity back to the intentionality of creative craft to evolve a deeper, more embodied creative joy.

We will unpack this journey through three stages:

✹ Amplification: The initial spark of expanded expression.

✹ Cognitive Rupture: Navigating the “messy middle” where authorship blurs.

✹ Recovering Sensation: Returning to human craftsmanship by using AI as a mirror for our own thoughts.

Please, join this conversation and share your reflections and discoveries with us!
register your spot via zoom registration! :)

Most view AI as a shortcut—an efficient tool for “polished” outputs that often flattens the human creative process. But in this rush for perfection, a critical question arises: Are we losing our creative soul to automation?

AI Artist & Digital Designer Jeehyun Kim @an_realphoto and Cognitive Systems Strategist & Experience Architecture Binna Lee @_leebinna have explored this tension. This session is the culmination of a dialogue between a Master approaching AI-generated art through a lens of evolving subversion and a Strategist mapping cognitive structures. Together, they peel back the layers of human creation to find where “joy” lives beneath the shadow of automation.

DATE & TIME
✹ EST (New York): Feb 27th (Fri) | 7 PM
✹ KST (Seoul): Feb 28th (Sat) | 9 AM

✹ ZOOM Registration Link in the Bio ✹

We will explore the questions that elude creators today:

✹ The Cognitive Feedback Loop: What happens to imagination when human intent meets the machine’s “uncontrollable” logic?

✹ The Jitter and the Joy: Navigating the “messy middle” of creation where we lose control to find radical insight.

✹ Recovering Sensation: Moving from digital fluidity back to the intentionality of creative craft to evolve a deeper, more embodied creative joy.

We will unpack this journey through three stages:

✹ Amplification: The initial spark of expanded expression.

✹ Cognitive Rupture: Navigating the “messy middle” where authorship blurs.

✹ Recovering Sensation: Returning to human craftsmanship by using AI as a mirror for our own thoughts.

Please, join this conversation and share your reflections and discoveries with us!
register your spot via zoom registration! :)

Most view AI as a shortcut—an efficient tool for “polished” outputs that often flattens the human creative process. But in this rush for perfection, a critical question arises: Are we losing our creative soul to automation?

AI Artist & Digital Designer Jeehyun Kim @an_realphoto and Cognitive Systems Strategist & Experience Architecture Binna Lee @_leebinna have explored this tension. This session is the culmination of a dialogue between a Master approaching AI-generated art through a lens of evolving subversion and a Strategist mapping cognitive structures. Together, they peel back the layers of human creation to find where “joy” lives beneath the shadow of automation.

DATE & TIME
✹ EST (New York): Feb 27th (Fri) | 7 PM
✹ KST (Seoul): Feb 28th (Sat) | 9 AM

✹ ZOOM Registration Link in the Bio ✹

We will explore the questions that elude creators today:

✹ The Cognitive Feedback Loop: What happens to imagination when human intent meets the machine’s “uncontrollable” logic?

✹ The Jitter and the Joy: Navigating the “messy middle” of creation where we lose control to find radical insight.

✹ Recovering Sensation: Moving from digital fluidity back to the intentionality of creative craft to evolve a deeper, more embodied creative joy.

We will unpack this journey through three stages:

✹ Amplification: The initial spark of expanded expression.

✹ Cognitive Rupture: Navigating the “messy middle” where authorship blurs.

✹ Recovering Sensation: Returning to human craftsmanship by using AI as a mirror for our own thoughts.

Please, join this conversation and share your reflections and discoveries with us!
register your spot via zoom registration! :)

Most view AI as a shortcut—an efficient tool for “polished” outputs that often flattens the human creative process. But in this rush for perfection, a critical question arises: Are we losing our creative soul to automation?

AI Artist & Digital Designer Jeehyun Kim @an_realphoto and Cognitive Systems Strategist & Experience Architecture Binna Lee @_leebinna have explored this tension. This session is the culmination of a dialogue between a Master approaching AI-generated art through a lens of evolving subversion and a Strategist mapping cognitive structures. Together, they peel back the layers of human creation to find where “joy” lives beneath the shadow of automation.

DATE & TIME
✹ EST (New York): Feb 27th (Fri) | 7 PM
✹ KST (Seoul): Feb 28th (Sat) | 9 AM

✹ ZOOM Registration Link in the Bio ✹

We will explore the questions that elude creators today:

✹ The Cognitive Feedback Loop: What happens to imagination when human intent meets the machine’s “uncontrollable” logic?

✹ The Jitter and the Joy: Navigating the “messy middle” of creation where we lose control to find radical insight.

✹ Recovering Sensation: Moving from digital fluidity back to the intentionality of creative craft to evolve a deeper, more embodied creative joy.

We will unpack this journey through three stages:

✹ Amplification: The initial spark of expanded expression.

✹ Cognitive Rupture: Navigating the “messy middle” where authorship blurs.

✹ Recovering Sensation: Returning to human craftsmanship by using AI as a mirror for our own thoughts.

Please, join this conversation and share your reflections and discoveries with us!
register your spot via zoom registration! :)

Most view AI as a shortcut—an efficient tool for “polished” outputs that often flattens the human creative process. But in this rush for perfection, a critical question arises: Are we losing our creative soul to automation?

AI Artist & Digital Designer Jeehyun Kim @an_realphoto and Cognitive Systems Strategist & Experience Architecture Binna Lee @_leebinna have explored this tension. This session is the culmination of a dialogue between a Master approaching AI-generated art through a lens of evolving subversion and a Strategist mapping cognitive structures. Together, they peel back the layers of human creation to find where “joy” lives beneath the shadow of automation.

DATE & TIME
✹ EST (New York): Feb 27th (Fri) | 7 PM
✹ KST (Seoul): Feb 28th (Sat) | 9 AM

✹ ZOOM Registration Link in the Bio ✹

We will explore the questions that elude creators today:

✹ The Cognitive Feedback Loop: What happens to imagination when human intent meets the machine’s “uncontrollable” logic?

✹ The Jitter and the Joy: Navigating the “messy middle” of creation where we lose control to find radical insight.

✹ Recovering Sensation: Moving from digital fluidity back to the intentionality of creative craft to evolve a deeper, more embodied creative joy.

We will unpack this journey through three stages:

✹ Amplification: The initial spark of expanded expression.

✹ Cognitive Rupture: Navigating the “messy middle” where authorship blurs.

✹ Recovering Sensation: Returning to human craftsmanship by using AI as a mirror for our own thoughts.

Please, join this conversation and share your reflections and discoveries with us!
register your spot via zoom registration! :)

Following a deep contemplation of @ayo.io Ayodamola Okunseinde’s latest work on the Lagos “Go Slow Go Slow,” By layering his ethnographic insights—gathered during his sabbatical in Lagos, Nigeria I’ve developed a synthesis exploring how engineered environments—from the colonial lattices of Nigeria to the developmentalist grids of my home, South Korea—act as Constructed Containers.
These are not just failures of infrastructure; they are intentional designs that acclimate our thinking, behavior, and even our biology.

To fully grasp the visceral, site-specific phenomena Ayo observes in Lagos, I strongly encourage reading his original piece. My synthesis is an intentional act of looking through his work—projecting it onto my own architectural and cognitive frameworks and my home town history. In doing so, I recognize that my interpretation may diverge from his original intent, creating a nuanced dialogue between our two distinct systems of thought.

🔗 link in the bio
The Architecture of Stagnation: A Thematic Synthesis
Environment is never neutral; the body is agency.

Insight Realm: Project Page has been updated.

From my 2022 thesis Selfulness to the upcoming 2026 RCA Immersive Acts Symposium, this site archives a long-term inquiry into architecting human perception and mediated environments. You are welcome to explore how the “Perception Box” translates cognitive loops into lived spatial schemas.

🔗 interplayer.fyi/InsightRealm

#InsightRealm #SpatialComputing #ResearchThroughDesign #immersivestorytelling #XR

I’m going to present my research through design project, “Insight Realm,” XR cognitive experience (Prototype), has been selected through peer review for a Full Talk at the @royalcollegeofart (RCA) for the Immersive Acts Symposium: Disrupting the Frame by Otherwise Narratives this March. 



Track 3: Immersive Innovation Design: Bodies, Sensors, and New Narratives

Preliminary Title: Insight Realm - a spatial-cognitive XR experience that externalizes psychological processes—such as perceptual bias, emotional spirals, and self-evaluation—into navigable, #embodied #environments

For years, I’ve been connecting dots and dots, building this world piece by piece at the intersection of cognitive emotion systems and experience architecture. Seeing these threads finally resonate with the RCA feels like the culmination of a steady, iterative journey.

In London, I’ll be discussing how we often externalize the “Perception Self” (aka perception box)—transforming internal psychological processes like perceptual bias and emotional spirals into navigable, embodied environments.
By designing for the felt sense rather than the interface, we create spaces where architecture responds to our cognitive states, allowing us to navigate our own minds as physical territory.

Thank you dear my @teamecho.studio building crew/contributors— @roy.h.yang & @forthoforth MFADT alums, and my student @isjustowen Senior BFADT, for your dedication in bringing this vision to life together for the NEWVIEW competition. This project is heading to RCA! I told you! 😉

If you are in London in Mar 12th and 13th, it’d be great to see you there. The symposium is open to public.

See you in London! 🇬🇧

I’m going to present my research through design project, “Insight Realm,” XR cognitive experience (Prototype), has been selected through peer review for a Full Talk at the @royalcollegeofart (RCA) for the Immersive Acts Symposium: Disrupting the Frame by Otherwise Narratives this March. 



Track 3: Immersive Innovation Design: Bodies, Sensors, and New Narratives

Preliminary Title: Insight Realm - a spatial-cognitive XR experience that externalizes psychological processes—such as perceptual bias, emotional spirals, and self-evaluation—into navigable, #embodied #environments

For years, I’ve been connecting dots and dots, building this world piece by piece at the intersection of cognitive emotion systems and experience architecture. Seeing these threads finally resonate with the RCA feels like the culmination of a steady, iterative journey.

In London, I’ll be discussing how we often externalize the “Perception Self” (aka perception box)—transforming internal psychological processes like perceptual bias and emotional spirals into navigable, embodied environments.
By designing for the felt sense rather than the interface, we create spaces where architecture responds to our cognitive states, allowing us to navigate our own minds as physical territory.

Thank you dear my @teamecho.studio building crew/contributors— @roy.h.yang & @forthoforth MFADT alums, and my student @isjustowen Senior BFADT, for your dedication in bringing this vision to life together for the NEWVIEW competition. This project is heading to RCA! I told you! 😉

If you are in London in Mar 12th and 13th, it’d be great to see you there. The symposium is open to public.

See you in London! 🇬🇧

I’m going to present my research through design project, “Insight Realm,” XR cognitive experience (Prototype), has been selected through peer review for a Full Talk at the @royalcollegeofart (RCA) for the Immersive Acts Symposium: Disrupting the Frame by Otherwise Narratives this March. 



Track 3: Immersive Innovation Design: Bodies, Sensors, and New Narratives

Preliminary Title: Insight Realm - a spatial-cognitive XR experience that externalizes psychological processes—such as perceptual bias, emotional spirals, and self-evaluation—into navigable, #embodied #environments

For years, I’ve been connecting dots and dots, building this world piece by piece at the intersection of cognitive emotion systems and experience architecture. Seeing these threads finally resonate with the RCA feels like the culmination of a steady, iterative journey.

In London, I’ll be discussing how we often externalize the “Perception Self” (aka perception box)—transforming internal psychological processes like perceptual bias and emotional spirals into navigable, embodied environments.
By designing for the felt sense rather than the interface, we create spaces where architecture responds to our cognitive states, allowing us to navigate our own minds as physical territory.

Thank you dear my @teamecho.studio building crew/contributors— @roy.h.yang & @forthoforth MFADT alums, and my student @isjustowen Senior BFADT, for your dedication in bringing this vision to life together for the NEWVIEW competition. This project is heading to RCA! I told you! 😉

If you are in London in Mar 12th and 13th, it’d be great to see you there. The symposium is open to public.

See you in London! 🇬🇧

There is a unique kind of "play" that happens when building class materials. 🛠️

3rd year of teaching Core Lab Environments – While prepping for my sessions using Unity 6 to explore #RGM (Rube Goldberg Machine) without the need for scripting but only Unity physics materials and components to build a silly a and unproductive yet unnecessarily complicated mechanical machine.

The challenge I set for the students: Build a "silly and unproductive but complicated" mechanical machine using zero scripting as it should be! By stripping away the code and focusing purely on, getting playful with this complicated game engine:

Unity Physics Materials & Components (Hinge, Fixed, and Spring joints, Colliders, and Rigidbodies: no cinemachine and timeline yet ;) )
Spatial Perspectives (Camera movement & framing)
Environmental Logic (Bounciness & Friction)
Visual Part: Materials and Texture

It’s a reflective learning process, bringing the physics of the built environment into a virtual space. It is a level of spatial problem-solving that no AI can do—only students with their own hands. (Honestly, if they started with paper crafting first? Even better!)

Mastering this physical intuition allows students to deconstruct and reconstruct space, perceiving "weight" and "tension" where there is only pixels. Watching their "brain freeze" melt into a "eureka" moment when the bounciness and friction finally click is the most rewarding part of the job. 🌀✨

Because human creativity takes time to grow, yet it is limitless!

Unity Intro: physics 2: RGM no script, only camera + animation + the recorder

#BFADT #corlabenvironments #unity6 #Unityart Unityfoundation spatialdesign in Unity experientiallearning
@unitytechnologies

There is a unique kind of "play" that happens when building class materials. 🛠️

3rd year of teaching Core Lab Environments – While prepping for my sessions using Unity 6 to explore #RGM (Rube Goldberg Machine) without the need for scripting but only Unity physics materials and components to build a silly a and unproductive yet unnecessarily complicated mechanical machine.

The challenge I set for the students: Build a "silly and unproductive but complicated" mechanical machine using zero scripting as it should be! By stripping away the code and focusing purely on, getting playful with this complicated game engine:

Unity Physics Materials & Components (Hinge, Fixed, and Spring joints, Colliders, and Rigidbodies: no cinemachine and timeline yet ;) )
Spatial Perspectives (Camera movement & framing)
Environmental Logic (Bounciness & Friction)
Visual Part: Materials and Texture

It’s a reflective learning process, bringing the physics of the built environment into a virtual space. It is a level of spatial problem-solving that no AI can do—only students with their own hands. (Honestly, if they started with paper crafting first? Even better!)

Mastering this physical intuition allows students to deconstruct and reconstruct space, perceiving "weight" and "tension" where there is only pixels. Watching their "brain freeze" melt into a "eureka" moment when the bounciness and friction finally click is the most rewarding part of the job. 🌀✨

Because human creativity takes time to grow, yet it is limitless!

Unity Intro: physics 2: RGM no script, only camera + animation + the recorder

#BFADT #corlabenvironments #unity6 #Unityart Unityfoundation spatialdesign in Unity experientiallearning
@unitytechnologies