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
How Does Community Sound Like? (2026)
Proximity
Working in proximity —
spending time, building trust, and entering the community from within.
Collective Sound
Sound as a shared medium —
capturing fragments of everyday life, memory, and presence.
Translation
From lived experience to installation — translating relationships into spatial and sonic form.
Collaboration with Eva Van Der Hoek, Lou-Anne Manceau, and Sarah Bezy
Sound installation and relational mapping
Audio recordings, interviews, workshop materials, map with Eikenburg social housing residents
Exhibition at Rewild Farming(2026)
Exhibition at Naastbeek(2026)
Thanks to whom we talked &
lovely musicians & all the others
0.10.20.30.40.5How Does Community Sound Like? explores how a community can be sensed and understood through sound.
Developed in collaboration with residents of social housing community in Eikenburg, the project began with long-term engagement — attending gatherings, building relationships, and participating in everyday activities.
Through workshops, conversations, and recordings, fragments of voices, ambient sounds, and shared moments were collected. Rather than representing the community as a fixed entity, the project embraces its complexity, diversity, and incompleteness.
These fragments were translated into a spatial sound installation and a relational map, offering an open-ended experience of what a community can feel like — not as a whole, but as a constellation of encounters.Top Updated - 30.03.2026thereisyesfuture@gmail.com