NK
Naryn Kim
Project Planning & Direction · LaGuardia
Portrait pending consentSEPTNY x Round & Round · RE:CULTURE #01
Sacred Bell of Great King Seongdeok
Four students from four schools across New York, New Jersey, and Korea are creating with recycled nylon and Korean cultural heritage.
Cultural context
Why the Sacred Bell
SEPTNY reused recycled nylon from an earlier bag design and paired it with the Bicheon imagery of the Sacred Bell. The combination makes the project’s premise tangible: material value and cultural memory can both disappear when no one chooses to keep them in circulation.
“Recycled nylon and a thousand-year-old bell, in the same object.”
Discover · Create · Share · Impact
Project process
- 01
Discover
A special online lecture on August 9, 2026 introduced the Bell’s history, craftsmanship, sound, and Bicheon imagery.
- 02
Create
Students and Round & Round translated the cultural research into a pouch keyring using recycled nylon from post-consumer waste.
- 03
Share
Student interpretation, video, campaign graphics, packaging, and a ten-winner post-event campaign carry the story outward.
- 04
Impact
The learning, documentation, and support from this first project become material for the next school or community program.
飛天Rights-cleared product photography needed
Material outcome
Sacred Bell pouch keyring.
The documented product uses recycled nylon made from post-consumer waste. Packaging-development references show Bell and Bicheon research moving into graphic layouts, dielines, and print tests.
- Material
- Recycled nylon
- Source
- Post-consumer waste
- Design status
- Under review
- Product record
- Store URL pending
Under review
MUDS open-call status
- Submitted to
- National Museum Foundation of Korea MUDS open call · second half of 2026
- Document results
- September 23, 2026
- Final results
- November 18, 2026
- Current status
- Under review
Youth involvement
Student team
SC
Spencer Choi
Program Host & Interpreter · Cresskill
Portrait pending consentLJ
Lucas Jung
Design · Bergen Catholic
Portrait pending consentMK
Mui Kim
Video Production · Chadwick International
Portrait pending consentUniversity event supportHaryn Kim · Cornell UniversityJeongjin Lee · Princeton University
Learning and sharing
Approved project film
SEPTNY x Round & Round · 3:11English captions are embedded in the approved film.
Project scope
Verified project facts
These counts describe RE:CULTURE #01 only.
- 4
- Student project founders
- 4
- Participating schools
- 3
- Regions represented
- 2
- University supporters
Pending measurement
Measurements still needed
Lecture attendance, production quantity, recycled-material weight, distribution, sales, and proceeds stay unpublished until a source and counting method are approved.
Publication status
SEPTNY approved the project film for this site. External museum and partner sources remain credited below.
School and community programs