Research

Design Studies & Media Studies Research

(Ongoing) Guiyu Cyborg

Electronic waste and human’s body-artifact cyborg cycle

Guiyu, one of the largest e-waste disposal centers in the world, is altered by electronic waste through its materiality. Through decades of environmental circulation, materials that once existed in the electronics permeate into the local ecosystem…

Entering The Technosphere Through Food

Approaches To Analyze Food In Science Fiction Films

This research examines pathways that the experiences related to food can be practices that connect humans with the technologically-influenced ecosystem. As technology continues to develop, human food production and consumption become more and more dependent on technological intervention…

Estrangement and Imagination

Urban Memory of Home

Ushering in a pandemic era with regional wars breaking out, the world has once again seen what Hannah Arendt described as “homelessness on an unprecedented scale, rootlessness to an unprecedented depth.” Never has our future been more unpredictable, nor has the meaning of home been more vital…

Premade in China

Study of Present Chinese Food Culture in Media Representations

Foodology in China has always been a hot topic because of its diversity in regions. Liu Guangwei, a Chinese foologist, institutes a term “eatology” to specifically emphasize the importance of food rituals in Chinese people’s lives (2018). Although counter traditional eating habits…