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22 November
10:30
Innovative Collaborations: How to unleash the creative potential of a network with CIRCE
Aiwen Yin
System Designer and Creative Research Fellow
Speaker Biography
Aiwen Yin is a designer, theorist, educator, strategist and project developer, who uses writing, system design, institutional practice and community building to examine the social impact of planetary communication technologies. She advocates relationship-centered design as a strategy to redesign, re-engineer and reimagine technology and society. Yin obtained a MFA degree from the Design department of Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam, and a BFA in Visual Communication from Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology. She is leading the Situated Design pathway of the Master Institute of Visual Cultures. She founded Stichting NextKin which researches and develops future-proof social support systems based on long-term mutual caring relationships. In 2019, Yin won the INFORM prize for Conceptual Design.