Ms JEONG Keeyun
onyva@makehope.org
Researcher in the Social Invention Center
Hope Institute, Korea

Ms Jeong Keeyun was born in Seoul, South Korea and she has lived all over the world in Ethiopia, Taiwan, Nigeria, USA, India and France. She majored in French Literature in university. Since she traveled so much around the world, at times, she felt rootless, confused and often asked questions about her identity.

Currently she is working for the Social Invention Center of the Hope Institute, trying to create something resembling that of ‘hope’ through ‘everyday despair’. She has been a new trainee at the Institute for 8 months and she evaluates citizen’s ideas and incorporates them into recommendations for policies and actions.

Her personal motto is “Listening to your own inner voice would make you a tiny bit happier.”

SYNOPSIS

The Hope Institute’s Interactive Social Invention Center is a Citizen’s Ideas Bank. Plus, it seeks to find the way out to reach the goal, ‘Ideas into action.’ Citizens suggest new ideas on-line, and the Social Invention Center examines the validity of ideas through interviewing concerned parties and finding concrete solutions to make ideas work. Some of the ideas can be developed either into public campaigns or policy proposals. Social Invention Centre believes that “small ideas can change the world”. New thoughts and various ideas are shared - through the Internet - then revised, organized and strengthened to form the basis for realistic and precise public policies. Some examples of this approach include: Internet-based Interactive Social Invention ideas, Policy Proposals, Citizen Reviewer’s Club.

We ask, does the Social Invention Center have anything to do with Art and the Culture? – creativity? How is the society related to ideas? How is the idea related to creativity? How can we use creativity to open up the ideas within us, to make the small things change?

Jeong Keeyun女士

Jeong Keeyun女士生於南韓首爾，曾居於埃塞俄比亞、台灣、尼日利亞、美國、印度、法國等地。多年來過著無根的生活，她對家國的定義不時感到模糊困惑，常提出身份的問題。她現於Hope Institute工作當見習員，她希望在不如意十常八九的人生帶來一點希望。

簡介

筆者工作的Hope Institute的互動社會創發中心是一個公民構思的智庫，目標是為達到「將構思變成行動」，公眾在網上提出新構想，中心就會與他們見面，研究那些提議的可行性，最後把好構想發展成倡議計劃或政策建議。筆者提出問題：互動社會創發中心與文化藝術有什麼關係？社會與新構思如何拉上關係？我們可如何利用創意從小處著手改變現實？