I believe art and design have the power to transform communities, challenge perspectives, and inspire action. I'm Liang-Chun Timothy Liu, a Taiwanese multidisciplinary artist, designer, and researcher based in Rotterdam. My work explores the intersections of visual art, storytelling, research, social innovation and community engagement, with a focus on identity, place regeneration, and more-than-human relations. Through speculative narratives, community-based methods, and material experimentation, I investigate how systems of power, political, ecological, or cultural, shape our collective ways of living and knowing. I believe that by shifting our relationship with the world from one of ownership and control to one of interconnectedness, we can develop methodologies that recognize and respect the complex systems that sustain life. Working across disciplines, I aim to question dominant narratives, challenge inherited traditions, and propose alternative ways of seeing and world-building. My projects respond to complex social and environmental urgencies, engaging with themes such as the commons, community, intimacy, sustainability, and traditional knowledge systems. I see art and design as tools for systemic reflection and transformation, capable of creating space for critical dialogue, shared imagination, and collective agency. Whether through visual installations, participatory interventions, or performative formats, my work invites others to reimagine how we coexist, how knowledge is produced and preserved, and how new forms of belonging might emerge.
Eine Spekulation in Vier Jahreszeiten
The exhibition explored the symbolism of the four seasonal deities, representing the natural order and the perpetual vitality of life. Inspired by the curatorial direction, the visual concept balanced two contrasting elements:
traditional/classical museum collections and cutting-edge/experimental works by contemporary
designers.
Noordoostpolder Production Landscape
By rethinking agriculture, art, and design, this project challenges traditional economic models and production practices. Through workshop scenarios featured in the video, which connect materials, making, and learning, the project envisions a future narrative of regenerative landscapes deeply intertwined with thriving communities of artisans and farmers.
THE GRIEF SPACE
A space and visual design project. In the design of spacial choreography where visitors moving through the layers become part of a fluid non-linear memories. The stage becomes an interactive experience for both visitors and designer where our body sensation and movement initiates a dialogue between past and present, memories and grieving. Translucent curtains and handcraft metal objects create an uncanny space where hazy human figures flit across the boundaries of perception.
IABR – DOWN TO EARTH: WATERSCHOOL M4H+
WATERSCHOOL's goal is to raise awareness of our huge water footprint. Water use becomes a leverage point for collaborative exploration of learning - by - doing approach to the production landscape. Living and working blend, all while being designed around the prospective use of water and our resources. WATERSCHOOL operates as a test site and as an experimental catalyst for sustainable area (re)development, meanwhile gathering and distributing knowledge.
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.
Lifetime Warranty
Domestic appliances are our digital companions that bring the forward-looking, the progressive and the innovative into our everyday lives. In the coming years emotions and technology will become so intertwined with each other that the domestic appliances might also choose their significant users. How do we choose the best appliance partner from the unlimited options? Will they also have a say in the contractual promise for a lifelong warranty? How will we interact with each other?
WATERSCHOOL
Visual identity design for WATERSCHOOL founded by Studio Makkik & Bey. The core concept of WaterSchool is education and '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.