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
Exploration of Voices (2024)
Sound / Voice / Legal Text
Legal documents is recorded, fragmented, and re-voiced through participants.
Participatory Reading
Visitors record and layer their voices, turning reading into a collective and embodied act.
Reframing Authority
Legal language is disrupted and reconfigured, shifting from fixed judgment to contested interpretation.
Interactive installation, website, and sound interface
HTML, CSS, Node.js, audio recording system
Participatory installation with recording booth
0.10.20.30.40.5Exploration of Voices examines how legal language constructs and reinforces power structures, particularly in the context of digital sex crime cases in South Korea.
The project departs from the observation that judicial systems often prioritize perpetrator-centered narratives, resulting in lenient sentencing and the marginalization of victims’ experiences.
Rather than presenting legal documents as fixed and authoritative, this work reconfigures them as material for collective interpretation.
Through a participatory installation and a sound-based interface, visitors are invited to read, record, and layer fragments of court verdicts. These overlapping voices disrupt the stability of legal language, transforming it into a dynamic and contested field.
By shifting the act of reading into an embodied and shared experience, the project explores how meaning, authority, and responsibility can be redistributed.
Ultimately, the work proposes an alternative mode of engagement with legal systems through participation, fragmentation, and re-voicing.
Museum Vol.5 (2022)
Editorial Structure
The publication brings together independent film, art, and visual culture through a flexible editorial structure, balancing different types of content within a cohesive visual system.
Visual Language
Typography, imagery, and graphic forms are developed as a shared visual language, allowing each section to respond to its own content while remaining connected to the identity of the volume.
Extending the Publication
The visual language extends beyond the magazine through promotional concepts
and themed merchandise, creating a connected experience across printed and physical formats.Collaboration with Curation, Art, and Design Team
Design Team Leader
Crowd-funded through: https://tumblbug.com/home_museum5
0.10.20.30.40.5MUSEUM Vol.5 explores independent film through editorial design, bringing together different forms of visual and written content within a cohesive publication.
As the leader of design team, I designed approximately 50 pages while developing the visual direction for the fifth volume. The project involved responding to specific editorial requirements while maintaining a consistent visual language across different sections and types of content.
Rather than treating each page as an individual composition, the design process focused on establishing relationships between typography, imagery, and graphic elements. These elements were developed as a flexible system that could accommodate different content while maintaining a coherent identity throughout the publication.
The visual language was further extended beyond the magazine through promotional concepts and themed merchandise, including keyrings and stickers. These additional formats allowed the identity of the publication to move between editorial content, promotional communication, and physical objects.
Through this process, the project considers editorial design as a form of visual communication that connects content, identity, and audience experience. Working within a collaborative design team, I explored how a consistent graphic system can create relationships between different materials and extend a publication beyond the printed page.Top Updated - 30.03.2026thereisyesfuture@gmail.com