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June 2024 Recap: Stories, Insights, and Key Moments

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on June 28, 2024January 3, 2026

Monthly roundup time! Check out a sneak peek from each post, find your favourites, or better yet, check out all of them!

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How to turn your potential client to your biggest advocate?

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on June 27, 2024June 27, 2024

The architect’s fee proposal that did not win the project but ended on a high note – created the team of our biggest cheerleaders!

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Sustainable life choices do not require money, but it does require this one thing.

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on June 25, 2024June 24, 2024

The True Cost of a Sustainable Lifestyle

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Founder of DESIGNwith, shares her insights on driving social change through design

  • by Guest
  • Posted on June 21, 2024January 3, 2026

Meet our guest writer, Ranee Lee, an Associate Professor of Industrial Design at OCAD University.…

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Can You Win an Architecture Competition without Understanding the History of the Project Site?

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on June 20, 2024January 2, 2025

Background story of Dongdaemun Plaza (DDP), Seoul Korea by design architect, Zaha Hadid

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“Could This Simple Morning Habit Revolutionize Your Self-Care?”

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on June 18, 2024June 17, 2024

Pen/Paper-best kept secrets to self-care 

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Seoul, Korea Reflections: Reconnecting, Aging, and Architectural Marvel

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on June 11, 2024January 3, 2026

Just got back from an amazing trip to Seoul, Korea! 🌆✈️ Reconnected with family, explored the stunning Dongdaemun Plaza by Zaha Hadid, and experienced the city’s vibrant culture.

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Design as Therapy: How the Act of Creation Helps with Anxiety

  • by Guest
  • Posted on June 6, 2024June 6, 2024

Students often battle anxiety (both in their work and personal life), but the design process offers unexpected solace.

Creating brings focus and calm amid chaos.

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Overcoming motivation slumps – an emotional person’s guide

  • by Guest
  • Posted on May 9, 2024May 9, 2024

Are you feeling a bit demotivated lately? Is it possible that the month of May has something to do with it?

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Story of career detours: architecture school graduate at an engineering office

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on May 7, 2024May 7, 2024

Best laid career plans requires adoptation.

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Learning to become a mental health advocate in a classroom setting

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on May 3, 2024May 8, 2024

Education is more than just academic learning.

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All Design work is not created equal

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on May 2, 2024May 2, 2024

There are 4 distinct stages of design work, and they do not always help one another.

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Advice for my fellow graduates who are feeling the pressure

  • by Guest
  • Posted on April 25, 2024

No, it is not the kind of pressure you feel when you know you have not prepared for the exams. It is a different kind of pressure…

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There are no professional risks, only the losing face potentials.

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on April 23, 2024April 22, 2024

When is the last time you took a risk? How did it work out?

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What is Evidence Based Design (EBD)?

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on April 18, 2024April 18, 2024

Evidence is better than Value!

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From Pencils to Paychecks: design graduate’s questions to building a stellar design career

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on April 16, 2024January 3, 2026

Top 5 questions I received from my students for future career planning

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Confessions of a Modest Blogger: How Writing Two Times a Week Made Me a Better Person (Sort Of)

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on April 9, 2024January 2, 2025

top 10 benefits of blogging

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Why the word, “humbled” has lost its meaning

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on April 4, 2024January 2, 2025

contradictions of modesty: humility vs self promotion

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Improving the architecture community requires sharing.

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on April 2, 2024April 2, 2024

Discover how sharing among architects builds community and fosters professional growth!

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Unique is neither a positive nor a negative quality.

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on March 28, 2024March 28, 2024

Which aspects do you think makes a person unique?

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