On November 20, 2025, the lectures More than meets the eyes: fashion and experience, presented by Professor Julia Valle Noronha, and Design More than Humans and Things, presented by Professor Namkyu Chun, both from the Design Department of Design, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Aalto University, Finland, will take place.

The conferences are hosted by EAAD and Lab2PT/IN2PAST, under the coordination of Bernardo Providência.

• 4.30 pm
  More than meets the eyes: fashion and experience
  Julia Valle Noronha (Assistant Professor in Fashion Design)
  Department of Design, School of Arts, Design and Architecture
  Aalto University

Visual experience is largely prioritised in fashion and clothing design. However, the experiential dimension of clothing expands the sense of visuality to other sensorial perceptions. This talk seeks to discuss the ways we experience fashion and what that entails in ways of designing, consuming and relating to clothing.

• 5 pm
  Design More than Humans and Things
  Namkyu Chun
  Department of Design, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Aalto University

Throughout the development of design, as design has expanded widely beyond Western societies, relatively limited knowledge from non-Western cultures has been explored. Both for having an inclusive understanding of design and for turning a monologue into an interactive dialogue, different cultural perspectives need to be embraced. Thus, looking at four cases in diverse design subfields from South Korea, this study projects the possibility of incorporating a perspective from East Asian culture. Although the traditional approach to design is centralised on ‘things’, human-centredness has recently challenged this perspective. Through the lens of Korean culture, more contemporary discussions on design, including activism, decolonisation and postanthropocentrism, are an effort to recognise hidden or forgotten relationships in design beyond thing- and human-centred design, that is, relationship-centred design. In the context of South Korea, the ways in which the relationship is considered in relation to design are introduced for initiating more active conversations between cultures.