An interdisciplinary creator, planner and future foresight practitioner with a multidisciplinary background in creative direction, speculative design, product innovation and experience design.
Qinqin “Stella” Yang is an interdisciplinary creator, planner and certified future foresight practitioner with mixed background in creative direction, speculative design, product innovation and experience design.
Currently, she is the founding partner and creative director of Actual Fiction, a future-forward creative studio for future vision and creative production, leveraging future foresight and speculative design to unfold the imagination and redefine value creation. As the Director of Strategic Planning and Partnerships of Global Design Futures Network(GDFN), she is primarily responsible for developing global initiatives with international partnerships. She was also the co-founder of alterR.studio, where she took design as a tool to question the cultural, social, and technological changes’ implications at a system level.
Most of her work is research-based, playing in between reality and fiction. She received her Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Art History from the University of California - Los Angeles and Master of Fine Arts in Design and Technology from Parsons the New School of Design, and has studied Architecture in Harvard Graduate School of Design under Design Discovery Program. She holds several individual patents for innovative designs and her work has been exhibited and recognized worldwide such as World Science Fiction Convention, Falling Walls Science Summit, Hyundai Motorstudio, Lumin Prize, FastCo. Innovation by Design, Core77 and WIRED Japan Creative Hack.
Previously, she worked in J.P Morgan Chase mobile innovation team as a senior experience designer and was a member of the Creative Science Track at the NEWINC, an art and technology incubator of the New Museum in New York. And she has been commissioned for the Everyday Experiments project by IKEA's innovation lab SPACE10, and invited to the Dubai Future Forum held at the Museum of the Future by the Dubai Future Foundation. She also served as a creative lead in charge of the Tencent Science and Technology Museum and Technology Tree located in Tencent’s new HQ in Dachan Bay, brand campaign for Burberry, immersive exhibition for the Palace Museum(The Forbidden City) and global launch for Transsion’s Infinix Mobile etc. Besides, she has been working with clients such as Boston Science, Uniqlo, LVMH for product development etc.
杨沁沁/Stella Yang是一位跨学科创新实践者，擅长思辨和体验未来设计。她是专注于未来愿景和创意制作的创新公司Actual Fiction的创始成员和创意总监，也是设计工作室alterR(凹凸现实)的联合创始人，并作为全球设计未来网络(GDFN)的战略发展和对外合作负责人致力于国际项目规划和推进。
她于加州大学洛杉矶分校UCLA获得电子工程主修艺术史辅修的学士学位后，于纽约帕森斯设计学院获得设计与科技方向硕士学位，并曾在哈佛大学设计学院设计探索项目学习建筑。她拥有多个发明专利，设计作品曾获得Core77, Lumin Prize流明奖, WIRED Creative Hack, FastCo创新设计奖等多项国际荣誉。她曾在摩根大通移动创新团队工作，是纽约新美术馆艺术与科技孵化器NEWINC创意科技组成员，受邀参与IKEA创新实验室SPACE10的Everyday Experiments项目和迪拜未来基金会在未来博物馆举办的迪拜未来论坛，并曾作为主创人员负责腾讯前海新总部科技馆和科技树，故宫博物院和腾讯联合主办的《纹以载道》沉浸式展览，Burberry 博界「交融边界」展览等多项全案创意策划。