AI and Technology
"What If We Sent Jeju's Story to Mars?"
To Hamdeok beach instead of the classroom. In an immersive project built on Stanford d.school methods, students moved through the town the way an astronaut surveys an unfamiliar planet, and used AI to compose a message to send outward.
- 28 Nov 2025, completed
- Stanford d.school method
Programme Details
- Date
- 28 November 2025
- Venue
- Island Worklab Hamdeok
- Method
- Stanford d.school design thinking
After Voyager: the Platinum Record
As Voyager's Golden Record carried the sounds of Earth outward, the students made a Platinum Record carrying Jeju's. They shaped the message in text, image, and sound with generative AI, which put the technology and the imagination in the same room.
Borrowed from Astronaut Training: the Micro Mission
Surveying an unfamiliar place and solving a problem from what you observed there is close to what a real mission asks of you.
Four Stages
Explore
Into the local
Walk the shops and streets of Hamdeok, gather what residents see, and take in the local culture
Conceive
Concept art
Turn what you gathered into images, one original concept per team
Transmit
The AI backup message
Under the brief "transmit this experience to the Mars base", compose the message with generative AI
Launch
Showcase
Present and share the work at a closing networking party
Gallery
What Came of It
- A teaching model built on Stanford d.school design thinking
- A teaching setting outside the classroom that connects the town to future technology
- Creative convergence work through the Platinum Record project, after Voyager's Golden Record
- Practical problem-solving through micro missions drawn from astronaut training
- Students who stopped being an audience and started making things