Liang-Chun Timothy Liu

artistiek onderzoek - design - grafiek - sociaal-maatschappelijk - conceptueel

I'm a multi-disciplinary social designer, researcher and creative strategist who spent the last years working on visions and projects for near-future world building. In my design/art practice, I'm exploring the intersection of graphic design, social design and design research. I investigate our social and cultural mechanisms, where I question normality and standardization through the norms of our social infrastructure and system rather than new functions. I intend to invert what already exists and to inverse the infrastructure of norms that unfold in the notion underlying the rapid development of cultural transformation, environmental changes and hybridity beyond assumed normality, using narratives and strategies to catalyze the social imagination, the collective imagination.

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    • WATERSCHOOL M4H+ Library - WATERSCHOOL promotes dialogue and proposes a different, post - fossil, bio-based future with water as a starting point. The WaterSchool M4H+ Library shows alternative production landscapes and presents a cultural framework with the work of designers, industries, architects, artists and related research institutions, etc. Example video INSECTS.
    THE GRIEF SPACE - A design of spacial choreography where visitors moving through the layers become part of a fluid non-linear memories.
    WATERSCHOOL Visual Design - Commissioned by Studio Makkink & Bey for project WaterSchool. The core concept of WaterSchool is education and a 'learning by doing' approach. It plays typography with logo design and embodies the concept of dynamics and continuous growth and changes. For the logo design, the walking route of the WaterSchool is used as the design concept that is strung with six letters of SCHOOL. With its representation of the spacial identity, it gives WaterSchool a unique shape as a logo and icon.
    How to-Gether - This shared future landscape research looking at the social structures of work and leisure, we reimagine the commons and examine our communal behaviors and actions within the framework of spatial identity — ‘Doing’ is an action and ‘Doing together’ through instructions written by the inhabitants is an attitude and learning / unlearning process to shape our common terrains together.
    WaterSchool M4H+ - WaterSchool's Garden of Delight, human presence is not immediately perceptible. It is a place where the fundamental elements composing the human body and our essential resources simultaneously become valuable nutritional sources, building materials and filtering agents.