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Creative director & strategist working at the intersection of AI capability and creative work. Wondering what else things could be, and turns that into scenarios, frameworks, and systems others can act on.创意及战略顾问,目前聚焦于 AI 与创意工作的交汇领域。始终关注事物的另类可能性,以及事物如何被重新理解,持续提出问题,并将思考发展为新的方向、方法与实践路径。

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Selected Work精选项目
01AI ToolingAI 工具
Actual Fiction Lab

Transforms emerging signals into narrative worlds through a guided AI workflow. Built for strategists and creative researchers.一套引导式的 AI 工作流,将新兴信号转化为可进入的叙事世界。面向策略师与创意研究者。

02Creative System创意系统
Actual Future

A living environment for working with uncertainty — signal sensing, concept exploration, and early-stage direction finding.一个与不确定性共处的工作环境——信号捕捉、概念展开、在事情尚未定型前确立方向。

03Speculative Research未来概念研究
Atlas of Everyday Futures

Ongoing exploration of how foresight and AI can reimagine the rituals and systems of future everyday life.一项长期进行中的项目,探索前瞻与 AI 如何协同重新想象未来日常的仪式与系统。

04Cultural Heritage · Exhibition文化遗产 · 展览
The Way in Patterns

Reimagines traditional Chinese heritage through AR and immersive projection, animating ancient patterns into multi-sensory space.以 AR 与沉浸式投影重新演绎中国传统文化,让古代纹样在空间中焕发动感,成为可进入、可感知的多维场域。

05Science · Museum科学 · 博物馆
Tencent Science & Technology Museum

Creative direction for a public science and technology museum at Tencent's new headquarters, blending innovation with civic identity.为腾讯新总部的公共科技馆担任创意指导,让科技创新与城市公共性在同一语境中共生。

06Ecology · Speculative生态 · 未来概念
Hyper Nature

Simulates personal energy consumption as a virtual ecology overlaid on daily environments, driving sustainable behavior through ecological thinking.将个人能耗模拟为叠加在日常环境之上的虚拟生态,以生态化的可感知方式,驱动可持续行为的形成。

07Fashion · Brand Experience时尚 · 品牌体验
Crossing Borders

Brought wheat fields into Shanghai TX Huaihai via naked-eye 3D, creating a dreamlike collision of wilderness and urban retail space.以裸眼 3D 将麦田的原野带入上海 TX 淮海,让自然旷野与都市商业空间在同一视域中交汇。

08Food Futures · Speculative食物未来 · 未来概念
Econut

Proposes eating invasive species as an eco-balancing food movement, shifting habits toward a more-than-human co-living ecosystem.提出以食用入侵物种为切入点的生态平衡饮食运动,将餐桌转化为一种跨物种共存的生活方式。

09Biology · Speculative生物 · 未来概念
Skin Database

Speculates on DNA-digital data storage on human skin, opening questions about the intimacy between biology, identity, and information.推测人体皮肤上的 DNA 数据存储,重新审视生物、身份与信息基础设施之间的亲密关系。

Projects项目

Work between thinking and making思考与创作之间

From AI-native tools to speculative scenarios and spatial experiences.从 AI 原生工具,到推测性场景与空间体验。

Actual Fiction Lab

An AI-native tool for generating near-future fiction grounded in real world signals. It transforms emerging trends, weak signals, and policy shifts into fully developed narrative worlds through a guided process that links hypothesis, analysis, worldbuilding, and visualization. Designed for strategists, researchers, and designers, it treats imagination as a method of inquiry.一款 AI 原生工具,基于真实世界信号生成近未来叙事。它通过一套引导式流程,将新兴趋势、微弱信号与政策变化转化为完整的叙事世界,涵盖假设、分析、世界构建与可视化。面向策略师、研究者与设计师,将想象力作为一种探究方法。
Role
0–1, end-to-end
Type
AI-native tool
AI SystemFictionSpeculative

Actual Future

Actual Future (AF-OS) is an AI-native creative system for future narratives and development paths. It integrates foresight signals, concept development, and decision structures into a reusable workflow that helps move from open exploration toward early, actionable direction. The system functions both as an ongoing practice and as a framework intended to be embedded within real projects and team contexts.Actual Future (AF-OS) 是一套面向未来叙事与发展路径的 AI 原生创意系统。它将前瞻信号、概念发展与决策结构整合为可复用的工作流,助力团队从开放式探索走向早期可执行的方向。系统既是一种持续的实践方法,也是可嵌入真实项目与团队情境的可用框架。
Role
0–1, end-to-end
Type
AI creative system
AI-nativeConceptCreative Direction

Atlas of Everyday Futures

An ongoing future-oriented initiative exploring how foresight, AI, and design can converge to reimagine the rituals, systems, and aesthetics of future everyday life. The project transforms emerging signals into narrative worlds and design prototypes — from future food and intimacy to data materiality — forming a living atlas of speculative futures.一项以未来为导向的长期实践,探索前瞻、AI 与设计如何协同,重新想象未来日常的仪式、系统与美学。项目将新兴信号转化为叙事世界与设计原型——从未来食物与亲密关系到数据物质性——逐步构建一部持续演进的推测性未来图集。
Role
0–1, end-to-end
Type
AIGC Content · Speculative Futures
SpeculativeFutures

The Way in Patterns

An immersive digital exhibition by the Palace Museum and Tencent T-Museum that reimagines traditional Chinese cultural heritage through advanced technologies like AR, 3D rendering, and immersive projection. By animating ancient patterns from architecture and artifacts, the exhibition invites visitors to experience the beauty and wisdom of traditional Chinese design in a multi-sensory environment.由故宫博物院与腾讯 T-Museum 联合呈现的沉浸式数字展览,以 AR、3D 渲染与沉浸投影等技术重新演绎中国传统文化遗产。通过将建筑与文物上的古代纹样赋以动感,展览邀请观众在多感官环境中体验中国传统设计的美与智慧。
Role
Creative direction & production
Client
Palace Museum × Tencent
Agency
OUTPUT
Type
Immersive exhibition
ExhibitionDigital ArtCultural Heritage

Tencent Science & Technology Museum

Tencent Science and Technology Museum, located at Tencent's new headquarters in Shenzhen, provides the public with social and educational facilities that are both innovative and inspiring, while presenting Tencent's technological strength and corporate social responsibility.腾讯科技馆位于腾讯深圳新总部,为公众提供兼具创新性与启发性的社会与教育空间,同时呈现腾讯的科技实力与企业社会责任。
Role
Creative direction & production
Client
Tencent
Agency
OUTPUT
Type
Institutional / Science museum
InstitutionalScienceMuseum

Hyper Nature

A speculative project commissioned by SPACE10 for Everyday Experiments. It reimagines how technology can connect us with nature by proposing an MR application that simulates individuals' energy consumption into a virtual ecology that overlays on top of their daily environments. It aims to drive sustainable behavioral changes with ecological thinking, as well as form a circular interrelation between digital and physical worlds.受 SPACE10 Everyday Experiments 委托的推测性项目。它重新想象技术如何将我们与自然连接——提出一款 MR 应用,把个人的能源消耗模拟为叠加在日常环境之上的虚拟生态。项目希望以生态思维驱动可持续行为改变,并在数字与物理世界之间建立循环的相互关系。
Role
Concept · Creative direction & production
Client
SPACE10
Type
MR application · Speculative
MRSpeculativeEcology

Crossing Borders

Celebrating its first anniversary at Shanghai TX Huaihai and showcasing the brand's spirit of exploration, Burberry Generation Exhibition brings the wilderness of wheat fields into the heart of the city with naked-eye 3D images, interpreting the TB logo from multiple perspectives and creating a dreamlike illusion between reality and fiction.为庆祝上海 TX 淮海周年纪念并呈现品牌的探索精神,Burberry Generation 展览以裸眼 3D 影像把麦田的荒野带入城市中心,从多重视角演绎 TB logo,营造出介于现实与虚构之间的梦幻错觉。
Role
Creative direction & production
Client
Burberry
Agency
OUTPUT
Type
Retail exhibition
FashionRetail3D

Econut

A speculation about an alternative future in which we thrive in a more-than-human centered co-living ecosystem. It proposes an eco-balancing food movement to suggest eating invasive species in order to reduce our current food industry's negative impact on biodiversity. From designed objects to imagined lifestyles, it inquires how we may shift our food habits to better work with ecosystem resilience.一次关于替代未来的推测:在超越以人为中心的共存生态系统中繁荣生长。项目提出一场生态平衡的饮食运动,倡导食用入侵物种,以减轻当下食品产业对生物多样性的负面影响。从设计物件到想象中的生活方式,它追问我们如何改变饮食习惯,以更好地与生态韧性协作。
Role
Concept · Creative direction & production
Type
Speculative · Food futures
FoodSpeculativeEcology

Skin Database

Speculates on the possibility of DNA-digital data storage on human skin, inquiring into an alternative relationship between the human body and data storage. It aims to open discussion around the intimacy between biology, identity, and information infrastructure.推测在人体皮肤上实现 DNA-数字数据存储的可能性,探索身体与数据存储之间的另一种关系。项目希望引发关于生物、身份与信息基础设施之间亲密性的讨论。
Role
Concept · Creative direction & production
Type
Speculative · DNA data
BiologyDataSpeculative
Ikebana Chandelier

Ikebana Chandelier

An interactive installation at Fabcafe Hida in Japan, functioning as a lighting piece that celebrates the Japanese spirit of wabi-sabi through ikebana and kumiki (wood joinery). Discarded wood sticks were repurposed with strategic cuts and 3D-printed digital joints, giving rebirth to traditional craftsmanship through contemporary making.位于日本飞弹 Fabcafe 的互动装置,以灯光作品的形式,通过花道与组木(木制榫卯)致敬日本侘寂美学。废弃木条经过切割重塑,搭配 3D 打印的数字榫头,以当代制作方式赋予传统工艺新生。
Role
Creative direction & production
Type
Product Design · Art
ProductArt
Design Collection

Design Collection

A collection of speculative and experimental design works spanning wearables, food futures, dream technology, and product design — including Fluid Landscape, Six Sense Sniffer, Food Whisper, Dream Kit, and the Chase mobile app redesign.一组跨越可穿戴设备、食物未来、梦境技术与产品设计的推测性与实验性设计作品合集——包括 Fluid Landscape、Six Sense Sniffer、Food Whisper、Dream Kit,以及 Chase 移动端重设计。
Role
Creative direction & production
Type
Design Collection
ProductFuturesExperimental
About — Stella (Qinqin) Yang
Bio

Stella (Qinqin) Yang is a creative director and strategist working at the intersection of AI capability and creative work. Her work focuses on translating emerging things into usable workflows, working systems, and creative direction that can operate under real constraints.

杨沁沁是一位创意及战略顾问,目前聚焦于 AI 与创意工作的结合方式。她擅长将尚未成形的新兴趋势与机会转化为团队能够真正推进的工作机制、可持续运行的方法体系,以及在真实约束下依然具备执行力的方向。

While much AI-driven creative work concentrates on amplifying what teams can produce, her work focuses on designing workflows and systems that expand what creative teams perceive and explore before they start making — widening the territory of what's even considered possible.

当下许多 AI 驱动的创意工作关注如何提升团队产出效率,而她更关注更前端的问题:在开始执行之前,团队能否更早看见机会、更快理解变化,并更有效地探索不同路径。她所设计的协作流程与方法系统,旨在拓宽团队的判断空间、实验空间与选择空间,扩展可能性的边界。

She is the founder of Actual Fiction, where she develops AI-native tools and speculative frameworks that turn imagination into a working method. The practice sits at the intersection of foresight, creative systems, and scenario development, helping people find direction when there is no playbook yet.

她是 Actual Fiction 的创始人。在这里,她开发面向 AI 时代的工具与前瞻方法论,将想象力转化为可被实际采用的工作方式。她的工作位于前瞻研究、创意系统与未来情景构建的交叉地带,为那些尚无成熟路径可循的领域提供方向与方法。

Her work moves between research, strategy, and speculative design, using world-building and prototypes to explore cultural shifts and future living.

她的工作横跨研究、创意策划与未来设计,并以世界观与原型作为思考工具,用来观察文化变化的轨迹,以及未来生活方式与社会结构的多种可能。

Her background includes senior creative planning at OUTPUT, work with the mobile innovation team at J.P. Morgan Chase as Senior Experience Designer, and participation in the Creative Science Track at NEW INC under the New Museum. She has led creative work for Tencent, Burberry, the Palace Museum, and global product launches for Transsion Infinix. She has also collaborated with organizations including Boston Scientific, Uniqlo, and LVMH on next-generation products, experiences, and future strategies.

她曾任数字内容平台 OUTPUT 资深创意策划,并担任 摩根大通 移动创新团队资深体验设计师,亦入选纽约新美术馆旗下 NEW INC Creative Science 项目。她主导过腾讯、Burberry、故宫博物院等项目,并负责 Transsion Infinix 全球产品发布,另外曾与 Boston Scientific、Uniqlo、LVMH 等机构合作,参与下一代产品、体验与未来策略相关工作。

Her work has been recognized by Fast Company Innovation by Design, Core77, Lumen Prize, Falling Walls Science Summit, and WIRED Japan Creative Hack. She also holds several patents for innovative design concepts.

她的作品获得 Fast Company Innovation by Design、Core77、Lumen Prize、Falling Walls Science Summit 与 WIRED Japan Creative Hack 等认可,并拥有多项创新设计概念专利。

Based in Los Angeles. Previously Tokyo, Shanghai, New York, San Francisco, and Paris.

现居洛杉矶。此前曾生活于东京、上海、纽约、旧金山与巴黎。

Practice area
Creative direction & strategy创意指导与策略
AI-native system designAI 原生系统设计
AI workflow & toolsAI 工作流与工具
Foresight & future scenario development前瞻与未来情景开发
Speculative design & futures research未来概念设计与研究
Education
UCLA — BS Electrical Engineering, Art History minor加州大学洛杉矶分校 UCLA — 电子工程学士,艺术史辅修
Parsons — MFA Design & Technology帕森斯设计学院 Parsons — 设计与科技硕士 MFA
Harvard GSD — Design Discovery Program哈佛设计研究生院 Harvard GSD — Design Discovery 项目
The Futures School (TFSX) — Certified Foresight PractitionerThe Futures School (TFSX) — 认证未来预测师
Institute for the Future (IFTF) — Futures Thinking SpecializationInstitute for the Future (IFTF) — 未来思维专业课程
The Futures School (TFSX) — Scenario Methodologies: Scenarios, World-building, and Guiding NarrativesThe Futures School (TFSX) — 情景方法论:情景规划、世界构建与叙事导向
Contact

For conversations, collaborations, or ideas.关于对话、合作与想法

All Projects
01 — AI Tooling

Actual Fiction Lab

Role
0–1, end-to-end
Type
AI-native tool
Link
About

Actual Fiction Lab is an AI-native tool for translating present day signals into near future narrative worlds. Users begin with an input such as a weak signal, cultural shift, technological development, or policy change.Actual Fiction Lab 是一款 AI 原生工具,用于将当下信号转化为近未来叙事世界。用户从一个输入出发——可以是微弱信号、文化转变、技术发展或政策变化。

The system guides them through reframing the premise, selecting analytical lenses, constructing multiple divergent scenarios, and developing one into a detailed world with social logic, material culture, and lived experience. Each output remains traceable to its original signal, preserving analytical rigor while allowing imaginative expansion.系统引导用户重构前提假设、选择分析视角、构建多条发散情境,并将其中一条发展为包含社会逻辑、物质文化与日常体验的完整世界。每个输出均可追溯至原始信号,在保持分析严谨性的同时允许想象力延展。

It is built for strategists, designers, and researchers who use speculative narrative as a thinking tool rather than entertainment. Fiction functions as a rehearsal environment where emerging trajectories can be stress tested in narrative form — making implications tangible, surfacing second-order effects, and creating shared language around possible futures.它面向将推测叙事作为思维工具的策略师、设计师与研究者。虚构作为一种排练空间——新兴趋势可在叙事中被压力测试,使潜在影响变得可触碰,揭示二阶效应,并围绕可能的未来建立共同语言。

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02 — Creative System

Actual Future

Role
0–1, end-to-end
Type
AI creative system
Link
About

What if exploring the future felt as intuitive as building a Pinterest moodboard? Actual Future is an AI-native creative system for future narratives and development paths.如果探索未来能像在 Pinterest 上整理灵感板一样直觉化?Actual Future 是一套面向未来叙事与发展路径的 AI 原生创意系统。

It integrates foresight signals, concept development, and decision structures into a reusable workflow that helps move from open exploration toward early, actionable direction. At its core, Actual Future structures how emerging signals, technological shifts, and cultural patterns are collected, filtered, and translated into usable concepts and implications.它将前瞻信号、概念发展与决策结构整合进一套可复用的工作流,帮助从开放性探索走向早期可执行的方向。在核心层面,Actual Future 构建了一套机制,将新兴信号、技术转变与文化模式收集、筛选并转化为可用的概念与洞察。

Rather than producing finished solutions, it generates decision-ready structures: early concepts, directional hypotheses, and framing tools that clarify what paths are worth pursuing, testing, or discarding. Actual Future operates as both a living practice and a modular framework — embedded within projects to support early exploration, concept development, and direction-setting workshops.它不生产最终解决方案,而是生成决策就绪的结构——早期概念、方向性假设与框架工具,帮助厘清哪些路径值得深入、测试或放弃。Actual Future 兼具持续实践与模块化框架两种属性,可嵌入项目中支持早期探索、概念发展与方向设定工作坊。

Actual Future is fully AI-built, from early concept ideation to the working prototype and deployment. Currently open for limited beta partners.Actual Future 从早期概念构想到工作原型与部署,全程由 AI 构建完成。目前开放有限 Beta 合作伙伴申请。

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03 — Speculative Research

Atlas of Everyday Futures

Role
0–1, end-to-end
Type
AIGC Content · Speculative Futures
Atlas of Everyday Futures
About

Atlas of Everyday Futures is an ongoing future-oriented initiative exploring how foresight, AI, and design can converge to reimagine the rituals, systems, and aesthetics of future everyday life.《日常未来图集》是一项持续推进的未来导向实践,探索前瞻、AI 与设计如何协同,重新想象未来日常生活的仪式、系统与美学。

The project transforms emerging signals into narrative worlds and design prototypes — from future food and intimacy to data materiality — forming a living atlas of speculative futures.项目将新兴信号转化为叙事世界与设计原型——从未来食物与亲密关系到数据物质性——逐步构建一部不断演进的未来情境图集。

Case studies include: Flavor of Memory, AIGC Motion Highlights, and Future of Marriage Tiers. The project operates as an AI–human co-creation framework for future scenario development.典型案例包括:《记忆的味道》、《AIGC 动态精选》与《婚姻层级的未来》。项目以人机协作框架推进未来情境开发。

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04 — Cultural Heritage · Exhibition

The Way in Patterns

Role
Creative direction & production
Client
Palace Museum × Tencent
Agency
OUTPUT
Type
Immersive exhibition
Location
Sea World Cultural Art Center, Shenzhen
About

The Way in Patterns is an immersive digital exhibition co-hosted by the Palace Museum and Tencent T-Museum. The project revitalizes traditional Chinese cultural heritage by integrating digital content and digital technology to support the reconstruction and presentation of cultural relics.《有纹有路》是由故宫博物院与腾讯 T-Museum 联合举办的沉浸式数字展览。项目通过融合数字内容与技术手段,支持文物的重建与展示,重新激活中国传统文化遗产的生命力。

Through advanced technologies such as 3D rendering, image search, AR, UHD naked-eye 3D, panoramic sound, and immersive projection, the exhibition brings new life to ancient architectural patterns and collections.展览运用 3D 渲染、图像检索、AR、超高清裸眼 3D、全景声与沉浸式投影等前沿技术,为古建筑纹样与馆藏文物注入新的活力。

Audiences step into a multi-sensory environment that celebrates the aesthetic and intellectual richness of traditional Chinese design, offering a deep appreciation of the beauty and wisdom embedded in heritage patterns.观众置身于多感官的沉浸空间,感受传统中国设计的美学深度与思想底蕴,在纹样之间体会文化遗产中蕴藏的美感与智慧。

Technologies: Naked-eye 3D, Interactive Installation, Projection Mapping.技术:裸眼 3D、互动装置、投影映射。

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05 — Science · Museum

Tencent Science & Technology Museum

Role
Creative direction & production
Client
Tencent
Agency
OUTPUT
Team
OUTPUT × Tongji University × onformative
Type
International Competition — 1st place
Location
Dachan Bay, Shenzhen
Tencent Science and Technology Museum
About

Tencent Science and Technology Museum is located at Tencent's new headquarters in Shenzhen Dachan Bay, providing the public with social and educational facilities that are both innovative and inspiring, while presenting Tencent's technological strength and corporate social responsibility.腾讯科技博物馆位于腾讯深圳大铲湾新总部,为公众提供兼具创新性与启发性的社会及教育设施,同时展现腾讯的科技实力与企业社会责任。

As creative lead for this international competition, I managed the joint team to achieve first place among top competitors including Atelier Brückner, MIT Media Lab / Carlo Ratti Associati, and Zaha Hadid Architects.作为本次国际竞赛的创意负责人,我统筹联合团队在众多顶级竞争者中脱颖而出,以第一名的成绩击败 Atelier Brückner、MIT Media Lab / Carlo Ratti Associati 及扎哈·哈迪德建筑事务所等知名机构。

Due to confidentiality, further details are available upon request.因保密协议,详细内容可根据需求另行提供。

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06 — Ecology · Speculative Design

Hyper Nature

Role
Concept · Creative direction & production
Client
SPACE10
Type
MR application · Speculative
About

Hyper Nature is a speculative MR application that simulates individuals' energy consumption into a virtual ecology overlaid on top of their daily environments. The unique plants and animals in Hyper Nature are based on eco-friendly NFTs — algorithm generated from personal energy behavior data — allowing individuals to trade within the community or with NGOs in partnership for ecological restoration and biodiversity protection.《超自然》是一款未来概念 MR 应用,将个人能耗数据转化为叠加于日常环境之上的虚拟生态系统。其中独特的动植物以环保 NFT 的形式呈现——由个人能源行为数据通过算法生成——用户可在社区内进行交易,或与合作 NGO 交换,用于生态修复与生物多样性保护。

By analyzing personal behavior data, Hyper Nature incentivizes sustainable behavior by awarding individuals with eco-friendly NFTs that take the form of unique plants and animals. These digital creatures coexist with individuals in a virtual ecology superimposed on their physical environment, creating an ecosystem in which everyone plays a role in promoting environmentally-friendly actions.通过分析个人行为数据,《超自然》以环保 NFT 的形式奖励用户——这些数字生命体以独特动植物的形态存在,与用户共同栖居于叠加在现实环境上的虚拟生态中,构建出一个人人参与、共同推动环保行动的生态系统。

Hyper Nature aims to establish a decentralized community that promotes sustainable lifestyles and combats climate change by incentivizing individuals to adopt environmentally-friendly habits — using gamification and algorithm-generated NFTs to encourage non-anthropocentric ecological thinking.《超自然》旨在建立一个去中心化社区,通过激励个体养成环保习惯来推动可持续生活方式与应对气候变化——以游戏化机制和算法生成的 NFT,引导人们走向非人类中心的生态思考。

Commission by SPACE10 for Everyday Experiments.受 SPACE10「日常实验」委托创作。

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07 — Fashion · Brand Experience

Crossing Borders

Role
Creative direction & production
Client
Burberry
Agency
OUTPUT
Type
Naked-eye 3D · Public installation
Location
TX Huaihai, Shanghai
Press
About

Celebrating its first anniversary in Shanghai and showcasing the brand's spirit of exploration, Burberry Generation Exhibition brings the wilderness of wheat fields into the heart of the city with naked-eye 3D images, interpreting the TB logo from multiple perspectives and creating a dreamlike illusion between reality and fiction.为庆祝品牌在上海的一周年,同时彰显 Burberry 的探索精神,「Burberry Generation」展览将麦田的自然意象带入城市核心,以裸眼 3D 呈现 TB 标志的多维诠释,在现实与虚构之间营造出梦幻般的视觉错觉。

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08 — Food Futures · Speculative Design

Econut

Role
Concept · Creative direction & production
Type
Speculative · Food futures
Econut
About

Humanity has been altering nature with human-centered thinking from many perspectives — and our food habits are one of them, causing direct impact. We cultivate and breed species based on our preferences, constantly disrupting local ecosystems and aggravating global warming.长久以来,人类以人类中心的思维方式从多个维度改变着自然——食物习惯便是其中之一,并对生态系统产生着直接冲击。我们依照自身喜好培育和繁殖物种,不断扰乱本地生态平衡,加剧全球变暖。

Econut speculates an alternative future of a more-than-human-centered food lifestyle. In 2025, an ecological snack made from invasive species became popular among citizens. The AI-powered Econut store monitors the status and activities of snakehead fish in New York's Meadow Lake and Willow Lake, recommending daily removal numbers via robots — so that donut-shaped snacks can be made from all their edible parts.《Econut》构想了一种以多物种为中心的未来食物生活方式。2025 年,一种以入侵物种为原料的生态零食在市民中广泛流行。由 AI 驱动的 Econut 商店实时监测纽约 Meadow Lake 与 Willow Lake 的黑鱼动态,通过机器人推荐每日清除数量——从而将黑鱼的所有可食部位制作成甜甜圈形状的零食。

Each Econut carries a unique number allowing consumers to track the specific invasive species used, functioning as a medal for each consumer's contribution to balancing the local ecosystem. This led to the Ecologarian Lifestyle Movement — a food movement focused on eating as a means of eco-balancing.每个 Econut 都附有唯一编号,消费者可据此追溯所用入侵物种的来源,它如同一枚勋章,记录着每位消费者对当地生态平衡的贡献。这一实践催生了「生态饮食主义生活运动」——一场以饮食为手段、以生态平衡为目标的食物运动。

The concept is not only a speculation of an alternative food future, but also a practice of non-human centered thinking — providing unusual perspectives on humanity in its comprehensive ecological context.这一概念不仅是对另类食物未来的未来概念探索,更是非人类中心思维的一次实践——从更宏观的生态视角提供关于人类存在的另类思考。

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09 — Biology · Speculative Design

Skin Database

Role
Concept · Creative direction & production
Type
Speculative · DNA data
Awards
Falling Walls Science Summit · Lumen Prize Futures Award
About

Skin Database speculates on the possibility of DNA-digital data storage on human skin, inquiring into an alternative relationship between the human body and our digital memories. It imagines that due to digital data overload, people start to archive information on the skin to take advantage of the outstanding capacity and longevity of DNA strands.《皮肤数据库》探讨了将 DNA 数字数据存储于人体皮肤的可能性,追问人类身体与数字记忆之间的另类关系。作品设想:由于数字数据过载,人们开始将信息存档于皮肤,以利用 DNA 链卓越的存储容量与耐久性。

The work comes with four parts: MemoryTags — a genetically-engineered synthetic skin tissue that transplants into the human body for data storage. TACTAG® machine — a converter that loads digital data into the human body through transplanted MemoryTags, transferring binary codes into DNA strands. Embody — a monologue video showcasing the experience of Ashley, a speculated TACTAG® user who uploads her memory to her body but ends up with unforeseen consequences. And a social system built around these interactions.作品由四个部分组成:《记忆标签》(MemoryTags)——一种通过基因工程合成的皮肤组织,可植入人体用于数据存储;《TACTAG® 机器》——一台将数字数据通过植入的记忆标签转入人体的转换设备,将二进制代码转化为 DNA 链;《具身》(Embody)——一段独白视频,呈现了设想中的 TACTAG® 用户 Ashley 将记忆上传至身体后遭遇意外后果的经历;以及围绕上述互动构建的社会系统。

The project aims to open discussion on how fast-developing DNA-editing technologies such as CRISPR could impact our daily routines and shape new social norms.本项目旨在引发关于 CRISPR 等快速发展的 DNA 编辑技术如何影响日常生活、重塑新社会规范的广泛讨论。

Recognized by Falling Walls Science Summit and Lumen Prize Futures Award.荣获 Falling Walls 科学峰会及 Lumen Prize 未来奖认可。

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10 — Product Design · Art

Ikebana Chandelier

Role
Creative direction & production
Type
Interactive installation
Location
Fabcafe Hida, Japan
Team
Hiroaki Ohba, Cheng Wei Hung, Billy KC Lee, Brandon Bergem
Press
HIDAKUMA · COLOCAL
About

Located in Fabcafe Hida in Japan, Ikebana Chandelier is an interactive installation that functions as a lighting piece celebrating the Japanese spirit of wabi-sabi through ikebana and kumiki (wood joinery).《生花吊灯》是位于日本飞騨 Fabcafe 的互动装置,兼具照明功能,通过生花(ikebana)与组木(kumiki)工艺,致敬日本侘寂(wabi-sabi)美学精神。

The project started with a week-long immersion in wood joinery led by experienced craftsmen — familiarizing with various materials and techniques, and gaining insights into local culture and its connection to traditional Japanese practices.项目始于为期一周的木工接头沉浸体验,由经验丰富的工匠主导——在熟悉各类材料与工艺的同时,深入了解当地文化及其与日本传统实践之间的关联。

Drawing inspiration from Tokujin Yoshioka and Sou Fujimoto, the design incorporates a vertical language using commonly available wood sticks. Discarded wood sticks from local carpenters' shops were repurposed by highlighting their inherent beauty through strategic cuts. Digital joints fabricated via 3D printing perfectly complement the wooden elements, with hollow structures exposing the dynamic textures of the materials.汲取吉冈徳仁与藤本壮介的设计语言,作品以常见木棍为材料,构建出垂直线条的视觉语言。当地木工坊废弃的木棍经过精心裁切,焕发出材料本身的内在美。通过 3D 打印制作的数字榫卯与木质元素完美契合,镂空结构则将材料的动态肌理完整呈现。

The design aims to give rebirth to traditional Japanese culture by integrating technology, creating novel experiences for people to learn and play with.作品旨在以科技激活日本传统文化,为人们创造全新的学习与互动体验。

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11 — Design Collection

Design Collection

Type
Speculative design · Product concept

Fluid Landscape流动地景

Fluid Landscape

A speculative design for post-human. AI is embedded in the human skin through DNA-programming to scan the environment and adapt to it, making humans a radical symbiosis with nature. This project questions the definition of human and humanity at the intersection of AI and DNA-editing.一项后人类未来概念设计。AI 通过 DNA 编程嵌入人体皮肤,持续感知并适应周围环境,使人类与自然形成激进的共生关系。本项目在 AI 与 DNA 编辑的交汇处,叩问「人类」与「人性」的定义。

Six Sense Sniffer第六感嗅探器

Six Sense Sniffer

A speculative AR wearable device for invisible information in the air, arousing imagination about alternative communication in the near future. What if we could be aware of pheromones in the air — would we become more empathetic?一款感知空气中隐性信息的未来概念 AR 可穿戴设备,激发对近未来另类沟通方式的想象。如果我们能够感知空气中的费洛蒙,我们是否会变得更具同理心?

Dream Kit梦境工具包

Dream Kit

Inspired by Paprika and Inception, a speculative design assisting people to take full control of their dreams using optical brain scanning, EEG, and fMRI. Invites people to imagine a future where dreams can be managed, documented, and shared.受《盗梦侦探》与《盗梦空间》启发的未来概念设计,借助光学脑扫描、脑电图(EEG)与功能磁共振(fMRI),协助人们完全掌控自己的梦境。邀请人们想象一个梦境可被管理、记录与分享的未来。

Chase App RedesignChase 应用程序重设计

Chase App Redesign

Fully rolled out to more than 50 million mobile users by 2019. Ranked No.1 for customer satisfaction by J.D. Power.至 2019 年已全面推向超过 5000 万移动端用户,并荣获 J.D. Power 客户满意度第一名。

Chase WidgetChase 小组件

Chase Widget

An exploratory project extending the functional reach of the app to the home screen, providing shortcuts for quick tasks and financial health monitoring.一项将应用程序功能延伸至主屏幕的探索性项目,为快速操作与财务健康监测提供便捷入口。