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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    • IABR – DOWN TO EARTH: WATERSCHOOL M4H+

    Project

    • 01-09-2021 t/m 01-07-2022
    • In samenwerking met: Studio Makkink & Bey
    • Locatie: M4H, Rotterdam
    • 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.
    • https://smb-waterschool.nl/en/home

    THE GRIEF SPACE

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 01-09-2022 t/m 14-11-2022
    • In samenwerking met: Alisha Phichitsingh and Tellurico
    • Locatie: StijpS, Eindhoven
    • 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.
    • https://www.timothy-liu.com/grief-space.html

    HOW TO-GETHER

    Project

    • 01-08-2021 t/m 01-07-2022
    • In samenwerking met: Temporary Art Centre (TAC)
    • Locatie: TAC, Eindhoven
    • 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.
    • https://how-to-gether.nl/

    Lifetime Warranty

    Project

    • 01-09-2019 t/m 31-12-2019
    • Locatie: , Eindhoven
    • 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?
    • https://vimeo.com/357646625?embedded=true&source=vimeo_logo&owner=73111399

    WATERSCHOOL

    Opdracht

    • 01-08-2018 t/m 31-08-2020
    • In samenwerking met: Studio Makkink & Bey
    • Locatie: M4H, Rotterdam
    • 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.
    • https://www.timothy-liu.com/waterschool.html