陈昱凝
Yuning
Chen

Biodesign
Feminist STS
More-Than-Human


Ciao! I am Yuning Chen, a PhD candidate between Design Informatics (Edinburgh College of Art) and STIS (Science, Technology and Innovation Studies) at University of Edinburgh. 

With a background in environmental science and design engineering, I am fascinated by the practice of designing with living organisms. And more importantly, how working with more-than-human life could challenge anthropocentric perspectives entrenched in our capitalist ecologies. 

My practice-based research looks into more-than-human ethics in biodesign and the broader biotechnological practices, with a particular focus on labour justice and practice of resistance

CV

Project:
Morality Calculus
Morality Calculus Food Theatre
Labour Provenance
Bevergising Spirits of Asilomar
Scents of Asilomar
Microbial Revolt
Carbon Alchemy
Plant Reality Set
Project Habitate
Mobius


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Feel free to contact me for collaborations or brainstorming ideas!

Mobius


During my masters, everyone needs to make a chair in five weeks that represents their design propositions, the course is called Superform. I made Mobius, a transformable chair that invites explorations of various resting positions through physical interactions. This suits me a lot as I am a very restless person. As an interdisciplinary designer, I also deeply value epistemic flexibility. I am always quite fascinated by Esher, and through this chair, I want to explore the spatial shaping potency of one circular line. 



Credit:
Yuning Chen



Special thanks to:
RCA metal and wood workshop staffz
章鱼(photography)
2018