About
Kyoungmee Kate Byun joins the Department of Fine Arts as an Assistant Professor of Interior Design after her teaching experiences in Interior Design for college levels, academic training of Architecture and Interior Design, and experiences working as a interior designer and a planner in 2013.
Course Offerings
ART 106: Foundation 3-D design
ART 562: Interior Design - Studio II
ART 563: Interior Design - Studio III
ART 565: Interior Design - Directed Projects
ART 566: Interior Design - Interiors Construction
ART 568: Interior Design - Building Systems
ART 596: Interior Design - Professional Development
Teaching Interest
Commercial Design/theory • Design process (EBD)/Space planning methodology • Human factors in Interior Design • Building construction & systems
Research Interest
Design of Third place for enhancing social interaction • Environmental Design for Older Adults • Interdisciplinary approach between architecture and interior design • Humanizing design
Awards & Honors
Product Runway at Louisville 2017. Student design team 2nd Winner awarded: October 2017
CANstruction at Louisville 2015: "Comfort Food Comfort From". Honorable Mention Winner awarded: March 2015
9th Annual ACC meeting of the Minds: one students’ design project is selected for presentation, Pittsburg PA, April 2014
The Posters at Capital, one students’ design project placed on the finalist for presentation, Frankfort KY, November 2013
Interior Design Educators Council, two student design projects placed on the finalist and presented, Baltimore MD, March 2012
Interior Design Educators Council, Regional Chairs’ Award Winners for the Best poster, Denver CO, March 2012
Scholarship from Pail Kee Kim Memorial Scholarship for outstanding academic performance Awarded at Iowa State University, January 2009
Conference Presentations
Byun, K., Moon, H. (May, 2019). Factors of social and physical environment for De-institutionalization. Environmental Design Research Association Annual Conference, Brooklyn, NY
Byun, K. (October 2018). Exploratory study: Human perception towards Color integrated with Light and materials. Interior Design Educator Council Regional Conference, Los Angeles, CA
Byun, K., Moon, H., Kwon, M. (March 2018). Human perception towards Color integrated with light. Interior Design Educator Council Annual Conference, Boston, MA
Byun, K. (May 2017). Wayfinding strategies among elders with dementia in assisted living facilities. Environmental Design Research Annual Conference, Madison, WI
Byun, K (June, 2016). Human perception towards to the Color integrated with Light and Materials: Exploratory study based on Kobayashi’s color theory. International Association People-environment Studies, IAPS 24, Lund Sweden
Byun, K (June, 2016). Designing studios as a social interaction place for enhancing creativity. International Association People-environment Studies, IAPS 24, Lund Sweden
Byun, K & Moon, H (June, 2016). Factors that contribute to remaining in the community among older adults. Social Work, Education and Social Development SWSD Joint World Conference, Seoul Korea
Byun, K (May, 2016). Design of Information Grounds: a Comparison of physical factors of interiors of popular information grounds and unpopular information grounds in a college library. Environmental Design Research Association, EDRA 47 Annual conference, Raleigh, NC
Byun, K (May, 2016). Back to the social living center: designing of study room as a third place in education. Environmental Design Research Association, EDRA 47 Annual conference, Raleigh NC
Byun, K & Moon, H (January, 2016). “Do social and physical environment present or delay the institutionalization?”. Society for Social Work & Research, SSWR Annual Conference, Washington D.C.
Byun, K (May, 2015). Designing of information grounds in a college town as a medium for facilitating communication and social interaction. . Environmental Design Research Association, EDRA 46 Annual conference, Los Angeles, CA
Byun, K. (June, 2015). Designing of information grounds in a college town as a medium for facilitating communication and social interaction. International Conference on Visual and Performing Arts, Athens Greece
Byun, K (October, 2014). Information grounds in a college town: design guideline for enhancing social interaction. Interior Design Educators Council, South regional conference, Tallahassee FL
Byun, K., & Akkurt C. (May, 2011). Social affiliation and intimacy with others as a medium of revitalization of downtown areas for sustainable development. Environmental Design Research Association Conference, Chicago IL
Byun, K., & Akkurt C. (March 2011). Design of the third place for intimacy and social affiliation in a cultural district, Interior Design Educators Council conference, Denver CO
Byun, K., & Akkurt C. (March 2010). Building a community in a cultural district as a medium for creating intimacy and social affiliation with interiors; case study of the Ames train depot as a community building. Interior Design Educators Council, Atlanta GA
Professional Affiliation
Member, Interior Design Educators Council, March 2010 – present
Member, Environmental Design Research Association, May 2012 - present
Member, International Interior Design Association, August 2013 – present