About AMH

The status of the current world is expanding the scope of research from the movement of human beings to the movement of human beings, objects, and their interconnected relationships. The development of mobility technology enables human beings, society, culture, and nature to move across boundaries, and their mobilities will be strengthened in the future.

In response to the development of mobility, the Academy of Mobility Humanities (AMH) was established with the intention to create innovative research platforms to address with the development of mobility technology, the daily movement of things, and their connected issues.

The HK+ Mobility Humanities Institute (MHI), a sub institute of AMH, began in 2018 as a leading research institute for Humanities Korea Plus (HK+), supported by the National Research Foundation, conducting a seven-year-long research project entitled “Mobility Humanities based on the co-evolution of human being and technologies: worlding the human-mobility societies in the future”.

Following the completion of the HK+ program, our institute secured the continuity of research by winning the HK 3.0 program with the agenda of “Infrastructure Humanities” in 2025. This agenda expands and deepens the scope of Mobility Humanities by exploring, , from a humanities perspective, infrastructure as a (non)material actor that shapes and conditions mobility.

Infrastructure Humanities aims not only to achieve innovation and expansion in humanities research, but also to appropriately address the social challenges accompanying today’s infrastructural and technological innovations, thereby contributing to the creation of a safe and just future society.

Following the completion of the HK+ program, in 2025 AMH became a leading research institute for the HK3.0 program, carrying out research under the theme of Infrastructure Humanities. This agenda extends and deepens the scope of Mobility Humanities, exploring infrastructures—both material and immaterial—as actants that shape and condition mobility from a humanities perspective.
Based on these projects, AMH aims to contribute in the long term to cultivating a better society by humanities-based thinking, to leading international research, and to fostering researchers with global expertise. We look forward to your continued encouragement as we strive to fulfill our mission as a research institution.

Professor Inseop Shin
Director
The Academy of Mobility Humanities