Ms KIMLEE Hye Yeon
Kunstbe3@makehope.org
Social Invention Center
Hope Institute, Korea

Ms Kimlee Hyeyeon works at the Social Invention Center of the Hope Institute in South Korea. She majored in philosophy and women’s studies as an undergraduate. She also holds a master’s degree in women’s studies. 

Ms KimLee feels very strongly about “Hoju-je” - the family registry system that defines the status of each family member in relation to the head of the household in Korea – which she perceived as giving men both symbolic and substantial power and leaving women vulnerable to discrimination. There was a rebellion against such a system and Ms Kimlee herself adopted her family name which consisted of both of her parents’ last names.

She works at the interactive Social Invention Center in the Hope Institute. When citizens suggest innovative ideas on-line, she examines their validity, interviews concerned parties and finds concrete solutions to realize the ideas with her colleagues. Some of the ideas can be developed into either public campaigns or policy proposals. 

Her recent research is on the gender discrimination in using the public swimming pool. She believed that the consumer right of Korean women was compromised as a result of their biological difference of the menstrual cycle. The advocacy led to both administrative and legal changes in favor of women.

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?

 Kimlee Hyeyeon女士

 Kimlee Hyeyeon女士現於Hope Institute的互動社會創發中心工作。她大學時主修哲學及女性研究，並擁有女性研究碩士學位。她強烈反對韓國社會以男戶主為中心的姓氏制度（Hoju-je），因此改姓Kimlee，結合父母的姓氏。她最近的研究涉及韓國女性使用公眾游泳池所受的不平等待遇。

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，中心就會會見他們，研究那些提議的可行性，最後把好的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？