Profile
Sanha (KR) is a designer working at the intersection of social design, material exploration, and sensory storytelling. She is temporarily based in the Netherlands and studying at Design Academy Eindhoven (NL).
Her practice focuses on working in proximity — engaging closely with people, communities, and lived situations. Through site-specific research and iterative processes such as workshops, conversations, and recordings, she explores how relationships, emotions, and social structures can be sensed and translated into material and spatial forms.
Working across sound, installation, and participatory formats, Sanha develops projects that do not aim to represent reality as a whole, but to hold onto its fragments. Her work often deals with the atmosphere of communities, the temporality of shared spaces, and the tension between personal experience and broader socio-political conditions.
By treating design as an ongoing negotiation rather than a fixed outcome, her practice creates situations for engagement — inviting others to encounter, reflect, and reposition themselves within complex social realities.
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Education
Design Academy Eindhoven (NL)
Social Design
2025 - Now
Ewha Womans University (KR)
Visual Communication Design
2018 - 2024
Selected Exhibitions
How Does Community Sound Like?
Naastbeek, Eindhoven
2026
Post Mortem of Knowing
Rewild Farming, Eindhoven
2026
Exploration of Voices
Loadout, Seoul
2024
Invisible Shelter
Ewha Womans University, Seoul
2023
Media Art for Korean Language Day
COEX Media Tower, Seoul
2021
Writings
“Prayer for Peace: A Puzzle”
sssssssslim Literature Magazine
2023
“Ways of Reading” (Co-authored)
Extra Archive 5, Korean Society of Design History
2022
“Two Interviews about Queer Labeling”
Ewha Byunnal Zine
2024 Selected WorksCurrent ExperimentsWritings
Sanha Park
Everyday Politics (2026)
Everyday Politics
Politics not as distant institutions,
but as something embedded in everyday decisions, spaces, and conversations.
Collective Voices
Personal experiences and memories as political expressions— shared, written, and negotiated collectively.
Mediation
Design as a mediator —
framing, translating, and exposing hidden structures of power.
Workshops, writing, printed cards, spatial installation
Developed through workshops and conversations with Korean participants
0.10.20.30.40.5Everyday Politics investigates how political conditions are experienced and negotiated through everyday life.
The project emerged from a sense of failure — questioning whether conventional forms of graphic design can meaningfully engage with contemporary situations.
Through conversations with Korean participants, I encountered hesitation and difficulty in speaking about politics.
In response, I developed a participant-specific system of question cards, based on personal experiences shared during the first round of interviews. Each participant was presented with tailored questions reflecting their own concerns and narratives. Participants could choose which questions to respond to, deciding what to share and what to withhold.
This project takes the form of a propositional framework, combining workshops, recorded conversations, and a podcast format as possible structures for facilitating daily basis political dialogue.
Rather than aiming for a fixed outcome, it explores how design can create conditions for participation — where fragmented voices reveal how political realities are lived, resisted, and reinterpreted.Top Updated - 30.03.2026thereisyesfuture@gmail.com