STUDIO TAIYI
INFO
I’m Taiyi Yu, a designer currently based in The Netherlands. With a profound interest in fostering connections and exploring relationships, I like to adopt an improvisational and hands-on approach in my research and design practice. By crafting real-world stuff, I seek to bridge diverse perspectives and unfold engaging narratives through the playfulness and flexibility of design.
Always open to cool collaborations and new friends – so feel free to hit me up or haunt me on the street anytime!
EXHIBITION
2023 ‘Class of 23’ at Dutch Design Week 2023, Eindhoven
2023 ‘A house where no one lives is just an empty building’ at 944, Den Haag
2023 ‘Solo exhibition of Taiyi Yu’ at CHAxARTxAMS, Amsterdam
2023 KABK Graduation Show 2023, Den Haag
2019 38th International Young Designers' Exhibition (YODEX), Taipei
PRESS
2023 ‘W.I.P.’ published at Designboom Magzine
2023 ‘W.I.P.’ published at Metropolis M, Eindexamens Special
EDUCATION
2021 - 2023
Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague, Netherlands
Master of Industrial Design
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W.I.P.: Windmill In Play
W.I.P.: Windmill In Play is an installation featuring a deconstructed windmill and a video of how it was put together. The object utilises winds to help collect and transport sand from one point to another point, moving in a looped motion that gradually shapes the ground, leaving behind a visual imprint of the wind's power. The project questions how winds have been harvested through windmills and reflects on how we perceive and appropriate winds. The windmill, as a concrete example but also as a metaphor for modern industrialisation, is implicated in the dichotomy between humans and nature. It exemplifies the rationality of seeing the natural world as a resource, a power that reconstitutes experience through its mechanical structure. In playing with the composition and function of the windmill, I contemplate how we can cultivate a different relationship with winds through the integration of personal narratives and ways of sensing.
More information and documentation about this project:
W.I.P.: Windmill In Play - Taiyi Yu - Master Industrial Design 2023 (redesigning-industry.org)
https://youtu.be/WL_W57iPbBs?si=Wa0FelDJrMpBC0XA
Type: Research Project
Year: 2023