mun - Warmbot Project
mun - 月印千江之曲
mun - Warmbot for Children's Hospital, MGS with Computer, 620*600*410(mm)
In 2017, I had an opportunity to design a robot for child patients, working with one of the biggest hospitals in Korea, Seoul National University Hospital. I got inspiration from a line of an ancient song in Korea “月印千江之曲(the moon’s reflection stamped on a thousand of rivers and valleys)” as a key slogan for robot designing, which is a kind of experiment of combining between old literature and contemporary design together. As the song says, I wanted to give a moon to each patient’s room to console their broken heart. On the surface, there is a subtle trace of craft man’s hand just like a traditional Korea portray, Moon Jar, and its human skin like-texture would offer warm temperature as well.
Collaborative Project with Seoul National University Hospital, Nursing College, Medical College, Law School, College of Engineering, College of Human Ecology, KAIST(Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), College of Music, College of Art form 03. 2017
My Contribution - Directing & Robot Design & A.V. Design / Seoul national university hospital robot business head designer form 03. 2017~
12.12.2017 ~ 18.12.2017 mun B.I. & Design - Design degree show (Seoul national university)
04.2018 KROS thesis - [Journal] Daehwan Kim, Jeongeun Kim, Yun-ja Nam, Seong Heui Kim, Jeongyong Han, Grace Donghee Shin† Development of MUN Care Robot Design for Pediatric Patients Based on Korean Moon Jar. Journal of the Korea Robotics Society (KORS). 2018
WHAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT POINT OF DESIGNING ROBOT?
FASHION? TREND? FUNCTION? EFFECT? FANCY? PRICE? DURABILITY? DATA-BASE?
FASHION? TREND? FUNCTION? EFFECT? FANCY? PRICE? DURABILITY? DATA-BASE?
NO
RATHER, WARMTH & THE WAY OF COMMUNICATION
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First of all, When I designed the mun, I strongly believed that the most fundamental and important thing of robot is not fashion, trend, effect, fancy, price, durability, and database. Rather, I insist that human warmth and communication.
That was the reason why I inspired by an ancient poem from a king of Korea, who designed the Korean language as a similar purpose in the Cho-Sun dynasty. Moreover, I combined with ancient ceramic building technics regarding to a Moon-jar process. With the help of the process, I achieved more sophisticated touches form the robot's(mun) surface.
Also, the branding process of the mun was based on Oriental painting brush techniques.
mun Project Summary
