Dahee Han

About

When our voices are respected, shared, layered, and reverberated, what kind of social composition might emerge?

Dahee Han is a multidisciplinary artist and designer who explores sound and sensory experience through collaborative, research-led work. Her practice is centred on equity, humanity, and the intersection of arts and health, amplifying voices often marginalised or overlooked, particularly within clinical and social contexts.

With over five years of experience as a designer in the healthcare sector, she has worked closely with individuals living with chronic conditions. Her approach is built on co-creation and deep listening, using participatory methods to develop solutions and proposals that prioritise relational care and lived experiences, reflecting the nuanced realities of those she collaborates with.

Her artistic approach lies in creating immersive experiences that facilitate emotional communication and deeper understanding, using a range of media including sound and moving image. Her work focuses on creating safe and inclusive spaces where diverse voices are heard and respected, allowing individuals to feel acknowledged and invited into meaningful dialogue. Through this practice, she envisions the possibility of more just and speculative ways of living and caring together.

Her most recent project proposes a multisensory model of communication to address diagnostic miscommunication rooted in structural inequity. With participatory methods, she explores how patients from diverse backgrounds express sensations through onomatopoeic and imitative sounds, along with movement. The project seeks to improve inclusivity and diagnostic accuracy by visualising and materialising patients’ lived sensory and emotional experiences, whilst opening up dialogue on new possibilities for how communication in healthcare can be experienced and understood.

Dahee Han (b. 1997, Seoul, Korea) lives and works in London, UK. Her work has been featured by BBC News and screened at the British Film Institute (BFI).
She is currently completing her MFA in Communication at the Royal College of Art, supported by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor’s International Scholarship and the Varley Memorial Award.