01. Recipe Storybook
Field Research / Design Workshop / Prototype / Creative Practice
A creative prompt kit to gather people to facilitate reflection and conversations through Asian American food memories —using food as a vehicle to facilitate conversations between multi-generation families, using food as a cultural artifact.
02. Grounding Lessons
Design Research / Process Documentation / Motion Design / Creative Practice
Grounding Lessons is an ongoing self-exploration about finding the meaning of belonging and my relationship with nature. Through this journey, I engage in textiles, worms, soil, history, and mapping to contextualize my research on regenerative ecology and its indigenous root.
03. Fieldwork
Design Research / Process Documentation / Prototype / Motion Design / Creative Practice
A set of embodied gestures that serve as touchpoints to the broad issues of food, nature, and the human connection. I learned about the importance of building soil health and regenerative agriculture practices that can replenish and strengthen the crops, land, and nature around it.
04. Rewilding
Transdisciplinary Design Research / Prototype / Illustration / Motion Design / UX/UI
Rewilding proposes activist-oriented interventions to question our existing built environment and landscape design that has been cultivated to destroy biodiversity. We want to give agency back to individuals and communities and encourage civic engagement.
05. Mapping
Mapping / Interaction Design / Motion Design / Storytelling
A selection of prototypes that explore mapping as a medium from mapping motion, urban spaces, and historical narrative.
06. Sketches
Interaction Design / Sound / Prototype / Design
A variety of lo-fi and hi-fi prototypes that explore sound, prompt kit, and public interface.