Assistant Professor

BFA    Visual Communication Design | Seoul National University | Seoul, Korea.
MFA    Multimedia Graphic Design | Indiana State University | IN, USA.

Bio

Design educator, practitioner and TASMENA co-founder, Yunsun Chung-Shin is currently an assistant professor in the Art and Design Department at the Zayed University in Dubai, UAE. She designed several interactive educational CD-ROMs, which have been nationally and internationally awarded and published. She worked in the e-learning industry for 8 years serving clients including IBM, Coke, Lilly and Company, universities as a designer and freelancer designing and developing online learning tools. She also founded her design company, Seedmine, based at San Diego, California servicing international clients from 2001-3.

Office: Dubai Academic City, (C Wing- CL1 002)
Phone: +9714 402 1463
Email: Yunsun.chung-shin@zu.ac.ae

Teaching Areas

Graphic Design. Visual Communication, New Media, Internship.

Research and Professional Activities

Contemporary Social Design Practice through TASMENA | TASMENA is a newly initiated interdisciplinary design platform believing everyone can actively contribute to sustainable city-making. Through series of laboratories, workshops, competitions, forums, and publications, TASMENA aims to create a space for people to connect, collaborate, explore, and implement design solutions across disciplines. TASMENA launched MENAseries: a biannual public design series with a number of workshops, lectures, discussions, exhibitions, performances, and activities on relevant critical issues of society. The first year is a local exploration of the various aspects of Designing Change followed by a regional expansion next year. The MENAlab 2010 was an intensive week long interdisciplinary laboratory generating ideas and concepts for Designing Change with over 70 people participating in a dynamic environment held from Jan 29 to Feb 6 in Bastakiya. The events for the year will conclude in MENAdesign; a design festival, which discusses, reviews and reflects on design solutions derived from the workshops and the awards. The MENAseries Designing Change will culminate into an exhibition and publication.