with/in
WRITING
Autotheory Observation
Journal
Fiction
Prose & Poem
#food
#intimacy
#community
#design
into:
publication,
zine, film
My writing mainly unfolds around people (sometimes from a design perspective). The practice is based on continuous observation, social engagement and self-reflection. Touching upon topics including food, family and urban life, I hope to provide not only the documentation of embodied field researches on specific phenomena, but also an external examination of daily objects and actions in my own life.
Meanwhile, I see writing as a hybrid practice of language and multi-media, with design as a tool or as its outcome. Intervened by graphics, music and body movement, writing for me goes beyond the poems in textbook margins and essays in iPhone memo, and extends into self-publications, short films and performances.
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My goal:
Be a flaneur with keen eyes for something beyond myself, thus including myself.
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work & research in
SOCIAL DESIGN
Ziyi Lian is a designer and researcher currently based in Eindhoven (NL) and Shanghai (CN). With the interest in people, everyday scenarios and stories of all kinds, Ziyi works to challenge cultural norms, intervene in social relations and facilitate community growth. Her design and research operates around community, food, nature and death, using mediums of objects, writing/publication, films and activities.
Through socially interactive, participatory and low-tech means, the design objects retreat into the scene, while the people, conversations and new relations sparked are highlighted instead.
Education Experience:
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MA Social Design, Design Academy Eindhoven(NL), 2021-2023
- BA Industrial Design, Tongji University(CN), 2016-2021
topics:
#community #food #nature #death CV
the ’ORGANic club
#community, #food, #storytelling
Duis Cursus
Materialising Metaphors (group work)
#mental therapy, #language
symposium 2022: Nutri-Score
#food, #politics, #storytelling
Water Smuggling
#food, #storytelling
Rocks of the Beloved
#death, #nature
Moss Ritual No One Really Dies Here
#nature, #storytelling, #death
Ipsum Deus Rex
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