I’m a designer, dreamer, and nature enthusiast. My love for art and design shapes the work that I do.
Dongting Qin
Many older adults have moved from the countryside to be closer to their children in one part of the city, becoming relocated seniors. Due to language, cultural, and social differences, they often feel a lack of psychological security. To address this, I designed a project to help them integrate into urban life. We identified a vegetable market as the best solution by examining their lifestyle preferences and the differences between urban and rural environments.
Wet markets in China are vital community hubs, offering daily necessities and vibrant social interaction. Inspired by this, I designed a digital and physical program encouraging senior participation as vendors or customers, facilitating their integration into the urban community and enhancing their quality of life. This approach embodies innovative design thinking, showcased through service blueprints, mobile applications, branding, and peripheral design, exploring the potential of design for contemporary social development.
Inspired by philosophical concepts and my observations of social media dynamics, my classmates and | co-created an installation art piece that explores the cyclical nature of desires in modern society. Utilizing interactive design techniques, | crafted an immersive experience installation.
The structure consists of a large black rectangle shrouded in black semi-transparent fabric. It features a “peephole” to pique the curiosity of onlookers, inviting them to observe through a voyeuristic lens. Inside the installation, experimental short films are projected onto screens, integrating viewers’ gazes with images of crowds in the form of cocoons. This design draws upon the life cycle of a cocoon spinning silk and transforming into a moth while embracing its fate towards death. As a symbol, it profoundly reveals the rhythmic pulsation driven by human desires.
This project challenges the traditional links between partnership, marriage, and reproduction, inspired by asexual reproduction in nature. It envisions a future where humans break free from these bonds, provoking thoughts on evolving societal structures through a blend of design and art.
As a designer, I drew inspiration from Blade Runner 2049 and created this art book to express my deep feelings about the movie. In the book, I use the replicant revolution as a clue to explore modern issues such as bio-capitalism, neo-liberalism and post-humanism, while reflecting on the intertwined relationship between future capital and artificial life. Through carefully designed visual elements and layout, this art book aims to provoke readers to think about the future of humanity, society and technology. It is not only a tribute to the movie, but also an insight and questioning of the real world.