2017-2023
TW/NL/BE

Focus on discursive objects and curatorial projects with narrative thinking and criticism. Mediums include but aren’t limited to design, installation, exhibition, video, writing... read more




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2017-2023 NL/BE/TW


Focus on discursive objects and curatorial projects with a mind in narrative thinking and criticism. Commit to putting design anthropology into practice, dealing with cultural complexity and translating it into communicative creation. Mediums include but are not limited to design, installation, exhibition, video, writing... read more



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The Moment of Glass
2021

What if glass bottle is the future synthetic fossil? This project illustrates an imaginary campaign that uses glass to document human civilisation from an individual perspective and speculates the next industrial revolution.
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Something Concrete: Clock
2020-2021

Recommend an archaeology theory - material agency; this project builds a theoretical framework that connects the physical environment and a designer’s mindset. A clock was created to aesthetically mirror Taipei City and contain ingredients collected in Den Haag.
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Morphology: Toast-O-Lator
2021

Reverse engineering, analysing, reinterpreting a design antique. By design, I communicate products with the same morphological language as the origin and merge the objects with legendary movie scenes.
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Reuse the Overlooked: Waste Acrylic Fibre
2020-2021

A material study and experimenting project. The main goal is to develop a small-scale production procedure that reuses waste acrylic fibre directly and efficiently. Furthermore, exploring the potential product application of this material.
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Reuse the Overlooked: Waste Acrylic Plastic
2020

Design products from leftover acrylic plastic from the factory. Using the dying technique to bring poetic aesthetic and value to reborn waste material.
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Ripple: Sexperience Has No Limit
2018-2019

The sex aids we designed for the disabled. The product suffices handicapped people's needs mentally and physically with the universal design principle.

Co-designer: Zoe Huang, Chia-Ning Hsu
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Fine'd Me
2017

A set of sandplay therapy animal figures designed in 'form follows (psychological) meaning'. By combining the symbolic meaning in psychology and shape principle in the design study, the set reifies Jungian archetypes in tools.
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Bulbasaur Stool
2017

Handmade stool of paper-weaving surface and pine wood.
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