Jie-Eun Hwang

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About Jie-Eun:

Jie-Eun Hwang currently studies at Graduate School of Design, Harvard University for her doctorate in Design Computing and Urban Informatics. She holds Master and Bachelor degrees in Architecture and Interior Design from Yonsei University. She has worked in both academia and practice as an Architect and Research Scientist, as she believes the balance between research and practice is very important for making advance. She loves travel and playing in the orchestra as a humble timpanist.

Research Interest:

Spatiality is the core of Jie-Eun’s research interests: how physical space can be built, how physical space and social space are related, how physical and social space can be represented in virtual space. Along with her careers in Interior Design, Architecture, Design Computing, Virtual Reality, and Urban Informatics, she has been exploring diverse aspects of Spatiality. She is fascinated with rapidly emerging new technology as an innovative vehicle to change our environment physically, socially and virtually.

Keywords:

Urban Informatics, Ubiquitous City, Urban Design, Mobile Technology, Design Computing, Architecture, Geographic Information System, Environmental Psychology

Contact:

jhwang[at]gsd.harvard.edu