idea list

speculative artifacts: creating the objects that could have existed in the life i didn’t live.

korean adoptee experience: you can learn your birth name but never know what it felt like to hear it.

k-pop ↔ hardcore: diy vs. corporate. both build alternate realities for belonging.

design leadership: questions around team formation, critique culture, and how to balance craft with strategy. what does it mean to build a creative environment that protects clarity without killing experimentation?

design education: what’s broken in how we teach design, and what still works?

to explore

• how language learning reshapes identity, especially when it’s the language you were meant to know
• what it means to teach while still learning