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China born and raised Lingjing Yin is a london based multi-disciplinary Designer, Researcher and Art Director working across a wide range of domains. She received her MA at Design Products, Royal College of Art in June 2011, following a strong urge of working with interactive system based on hands-on technology, people- centred research  and inter-disciplinary collaborative working models. Before that, she was trained as a Furniture Designer.


Her interests revolve around human body and it’s external objects. She tends to treat all the external objects as body’s prosthesis in a physical, poetic and metaphor way. She Loves human and cares about human production of itself as a species in order to understand the cultural & social products and the particularities of its corporeal arrangements and body ideals -- its management, representation, and production of bodies and thus of nature. Most of her works explore the self-cultivation of minds & bodies, the human relationships & identity. Some are reflected from the current happening of communications and device proliferation by looking into how people can simultaneously maintain a sense of wonder and criticality about the objects that they use and the way in which they related to the world.


Currently, hired as a Service Designer in Engine Service Design (one of the world’s leading service design and innovation consultancies). Lingjing enjoys her every moment here working with client such as O2 and Qoros for people-centred research and design revolves around customer experience and service innovation.  



Awards and recognitions:

Winner, Helen Hamlyn Design Award 2011

Selected Work, Yamaha ‘Resonance’ Workshop Competition, 2011


Education:

[MA]Design Products, Royal College of Art, London, UK  

Sep 2009 – July 2011 

- Platform 10:Daniel Charny, Roberto Feo

- Yamaha Workshop: w/ Tomoko Azumi & Kunihiro Takei

- Dance Workshop: w/ Dancers, Choreographer from Trinity Laban

- V&A real time debate system: w/ V&A curator & Gareth Williams

- Specialised in people-centred research, interactive design, film, communication

- Dissertation: Evolving Interiority: Prostheses and the Collective Subjectivity [Grade: High Pass]


[BSc]Furniture Design, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, China

Sep 2005 – Jun 2009 

- Specialised in Furniture Design& Production, Interior Design, Ergonomics

- Group Research: Sichuan Local Sitting Tools (Collect, document 100 traditional SiChuan Local Sitting tools. Research about it’s structure, pattern, ergonomics in depth)

- Dissertation: Traditional Sichuan Local furniture- Seating [Grade: Excellent]


Experience:

2012.04- present,  Service Designer, Engine Service Design, London, UK

2012.03,  Freelance UX designer, S[edition], London, UK

2011.12- 2012.04, Commision work, Faberge-Big Egg Hunt (Project ONE EYE WIDE SHUT), London, UK

2011.09, Invited speaker for THE GOPHER GALA, YOUNG LONDON: The Best Design of 2011, Old Street, London, UK

2011.03, ‘Musicality’ Workshop in Nordoff Robbins, London, UK

2010.09, Assistant/performer, Design Against Clock by Established & Sons, London, UK

2010.07, Ceramic Experimentation and Cultural Research in JingDeZhen, China

2010, Freelance branding consultant for SNOG, London, UK

2010, Researcher, Workshop: Abandon Architectures! organized by El Último Grito/ IED Madrid, Italian Institute of Culture, London, UK

2008.05-07, Internship, Field study of furniture production, Havision Furniture Enterprise Group, Shenzhen, China

2007. 06-09, Internship, VI&Spacial design, Kinto Deisng Studio, Shanghai, China

2006. 06-09, Internship, Interior Design, DCZS Interior Design studio, China


Exhibitions:

2012.04, Faberge-Big Egg Hunt, London, UK

2011.09, Dezeen Platform, Shoreditch, London, UK

2011.09, RCA - YAMAHA: 'Resonance', London Desgin Week, Chappell of Bond Street, London, UK

2011.09, Cheers 2011-UK China Art and Design Festival, London Design Week, Great Western Studios, London, UK

2011.06, SHOW RCA, Kensington Gore, Royal College of Art, London,UK

2011.04, RCA Intent, Ventura Lambrate, Milan, Italy

2010.11, Give Away- Friday Late, Victoria and Albert Museum, London,UK

2010, Work-in-progress Show, Kensington Gore, Royal College of Art, London,UK

2009, Work-in-progress Show, Kensington Gore, Royal College of Art, London,UK