“MY DEAR MR. MARTIN”
"My Dear Mr. Martin" is a two-part project celebrating Frank Lloyd Wright's design theories, and specifically, the stained-glass windows. The book with the same title leads the reader down the path of Wright's life of design. Together with its bookcase, the project understands, analyzes, communicates, and reflects upon Wright's design in both written and unwritten manners.
We are strangers to ourselves; therefore, we are constantly translating.
Bilingual or multilingual consciousness is not the sum of two languages, but a different state of mind altogether defined by the mode of translation. As a foreigner, I find myself constantly translating in both directions from my mother’s tone to English or from English to French, and, another way around. So other than languages, what else do we translate? Or are we already translating in our daily lives? We are translating subjects to objects, ideas to physical actions, etc. I want to explore more on the topic of translating and the idea of we are all speaking in translationese.
TRANSLATIONESE IN MATERIAL CULTURE
Reuse, Redefine, and Reconstruct Craft
Sustainability has been an ongoing conversation within many industries, including design and craft. However, sustainability does not simply mean “green” production or eco-friendly materials. With the support of interviews and literature reviews, this book communicates my argument that a sustainable design should be considered and inspected from three perspectives: ecological, cultural, and social.
Cheers? Designing for Quarantine Life - SOURCE DISCUSSION
Bringing tailored, carefully designed, neurologically stimulating, and emotionally connective activities, "Cheers?" is a digital booklet designed to help the public pass the time of quarantine. Using the internet as a distribution method, it launched as a community project and facilitates interpersonal connections and community well-being during the pandemic.
UNDERWATER SOUVENIRS - A PROJECT IN PROGRESS
Underwater Souvenirs is a project derived from my personal experience as a technical diver. Documenting and conserving the local aquatic environments in Qiandao Lake in China, I become increasingly aware of the “cultural heritage” of human beings that leaves and hides under the water. Using designed experiments, digital databases, and art objects, this multidisciplinary project aims to create a chance for realization and interpretation of human’s relationship with the underwater world.