Designer | Theorist
Strategist  | Project developer

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Yin Aiwen

Education

2017

The New Normal post-graduate program, Strelka Institute, Moscow, RU

2011 - 2013

Visual Strategy (Design), Sandberg Insitituut Amsterdam, NL

2006 - 2010  

Visual Communication, Beijing Insititute of Fashion Technology, CN

Work Experience

2022 - present

Pathway Leader
Situated Design pathway of Master Institute of Visual Cultures (St.Josst Master), Avans Creative Innovation, The Netherlands

2022

Founder & Director
Stichting NextKin

2022 - 2023

Core tutor, curriculum development
COOP ' Forming a new art economy of the commons' , Dutch Art Institute

2021 - present

Co-creator& co-organzier
Liquid Dependencies (multiplayer LARP game for collective future of care and an international community network)

2020 - present

Strategist
theCurrent.is a social and online education platform for the higher education of art

2019 - present

Co-initiator & System Designer
Commons · Art (commoning the art economy through blockchain technology)

2019 - 2020

Researcher
Cultural & Creative Industries research group
Centre of Applied Research for Art, Design and Technology,
Avans University for Applied Sciences, NL

2019 - 2022

Graduation Curatorial Tutor
Master Institute of Visual Cultures (St.Josst Master), Avans Creative Innovation, The Netherlands

2018 - present

Initiator, Project Developer, Research lead
Urbanizing the digital (research on digital space for long-term collective interests )

2018 - present

Initiator, director
 ReUnion (P2P Care platform for bottom-up safety net and sustainable economy)

2017 - 2018

Co-founder & design lead
Phi (blockchain platform for decentralized renewable energy communities)

2016 - 2017

Initiator & curator
Monolithm (platform for designer film)

2013 - present

Owner
Studio Yin Aiwen

2009 - 2011

Co-founder, Designer
ShuangMu Studio (Self-publishing agency for digital community)

Award & Fellowship

2023

Young Creative fellow, Creative Impact Research Center Europe (CIRCE)

2022

Gitcoin KERNEL fellow (KB7)

2019

INFORM prize for Conceptual Design 2020, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, DE

2019

European Stack Residency at Trust (Berlin), DE

2019

Residency at ZK/U Berlin (fully funded by Mondriaan Fonds), NL/DE

2018

What Design Can Do Climate Action Challenge, NL

2017

“The Recalibrated Institute” Research Fellowship (US/EU), ArtCenter/SF, US

Funding & Commission

2023

Commoning Art in a Sandbox, Creative Industries Fund, NL

2021

Lilies on the waters, Creative Industries Fund, NL

2019

Beyond the Nuclear Family, Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst, NL

2019

ReUnion Network, Creative Industries Fund, NL

2018

Poiexixx (now ReUnion), Creative Industries Fund, NL

2018

Prototyping Future Energy with HSE, Creative Industries Fund, NL

2016

The Curious Casebook of Chinese Network, Creative Industries Fonds, NL

2015

The Massage is The Medium@DePunt, Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst, NL

Publication

2021

On Post-temporariness, Making&Breaking, NL

2021 - 2022

Platform as Aesthetic Generator, so-far.online, SG

2019

The Curious Casebook of Chinese Meme War, Attenzione, AUS

2018

Urbanizing the Digital: Call for Action, Volume Magazine, NL

2017

Moving Away From East and West, issue “Export”, Fabrikzeitung, CHE

2016

Platform as aesthetic generator (in Chinese), Insitute of Network Society, CN

2016

HD is the new A4, Metropolis M, NL

Lecture & Workshop

2020

Economia 2020, NL

2020

re:publica 20 ASAP, DE

2020

Transmediale E2E symposium, DE

2019

PRIMMER 19, Design Future Initiative & Parsons New School, US

2019

Redistributing care, Global Carework Summit, CA

2019

Reconfiguring Territories Spring School 2019, FI/EE

2019

Reimagine family with blockchain, SXSW festival, US

2018

Designing the Social in Energy Cooperative, Fab City Summit Paris, FR

2018

Design is too white, Designplatform Rotterdam & Het Nieuw Instituut, NL

2013

Shows of Reality, Pangea, Faena Art Center, ARG

Exhibition

2020

Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, CN

2020

Solo exhibition, Gfkz, DE

2019

Reprodutopia, Droog Hotel, NL

2018

Munka/Work (Marx 200), abq Project Space, HU

2018

Living with the water, Museum of Architecture and Design, SI

2018

Videoart of Yin Aiwen, Museum Hilversum, NL

2017

Dutch Design Week, NL

2015

Mindful Sunday, Droog Hotel, NL

2014

World Design Capital, SA

2014

Chaumont Design Graphite, FR

2013

The Pop-up Expo, TodaysArt Festival, NL

Relationship-focused design is a research and design proposal which Yin started from 2012, and have been directing Yin’s practice since. Relationship-focused design encompasses three research brancheswhich tackles design’s relationship with technology (medium), with(post-)colonialism, and with art, respectively. The three branches converge at the over-all analysis about the entanglements between design and capitalism. Which lead to the proposal to transit design practice from mass communication to focusing on interpersonal relationship.In 2011, Yin moved to the Netherlands for her master degree. As someone who leave China for the first time in her life, she had difficulties in English and participating the discourses. As a result, she was often chewing the classroom discussions in the classroom for days, and then respond to her fellow students at once in the final presentation, through performance or installations. While enjoying the nuanced skills for internal communication that she’s learning from, she was asked to do something that can communicate to a wider audience, as she was graduating.The reasonable ask prompt her to reflect on the nature of design, why and how it always demands recognition from the mass, and what does it mean if design can be practiced on a personal scale — and how. This opened a long-term research for Yin. In 2013, she wrote her first thesis“Design for a Known Audience: How Design can Formulate a New Social Structure” to articulate her points, and created a performanceinstallation which offer a visceral experience of the theory.

Relationship-focused design is a research and design proposal which Yin started from 2012, and have been directing Yin’s practice since. Relationship-focused design encompasses three research brancheswhich tackles design’s relationship with technology (medium), with(post-)colonialism, and with art, respectively. The three branches converge at the over-all analysis about the entanglements between design and capitalism. Which lead to the proposal to transit design practice from mass communication to focusing on interpersonal relationship.In 2011, Yin moved to the Netherlands for her master degree. As someone who leave China for the first time in her life, she had difficulties in English and participating the discourses. As a result, she was often chewing the classroom discussions in the classroom for days, and then respond to her fellow students at once in the final presentation, through performance or installations. While enjoying the nuanced skills for internal communication that she’s learning from, she was asked to do something that can communicate to a wider audience, as she was graduating.The reasonable ask prompt her to reflect on the nature of design, why and how it always demands recognition from the mass, and what does it mean if design can be practiced on a personal scale — and how. This opened a long-term research for Yin. In 2013, she wrote her first thesis“Design for a Known Audience: How Design can Formulate a New Social Structure” to articulate her points, and created a performanceinstallation which offer a visceral experience of the theory.

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