A creative strategist and experiential futurist with a multidisciplinary background in speculative design, experience design and emerging technology.
Qinqin(Stella) Yang 杨沁沁 is a creative strategist and experiential futurist with a multidisciplinary background in speculative design, experience design and emerging technology. Most of her work is research-based, 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. After graduation, she worked for J.P Morgan Chase mobile innovation team as a senior experience designer. Moving back to Asia during the pandemic, she became a senior creative planner at OUTPUT in charge of curating for Tencent Science and Technology Museum, brand communication for Burberry, immersive exhibition for the Palace Museum, project management for Dior, LVMH etc. She holds several individual patents for innovative designs and her work has been exhibited and recognized worldwide such as Lumin Prize, FastCo. Innovation by Design and Core77. She is currently interested in strategic foresight and alternative world building and has been invited by Dubai Future Foundation to the Dubai Future Forum held at Museum of the Future.
As the co-founder and creative director of alterR.studio, a design innovation studio dedicated to speculating and prototyping for possible futures, she takes design as a tool and method to question the cultural, social, and technological changes’ implications at a system level and therefore envision the future.
Feel free to email qinqinyang.design@gmail.com to say hi (and get a copy of latest portfolio and CV) ︎
