Bow Wu

Yiying (aka Bow) Wu works with the aesthetics and power of design experiments in everyday life for reimagining and debating a more just and sustainable society. Conceptually, her academic and practice focuses is on socially-engaged design, including service design, design anthropology, design fiction and participatory design. Methodologically, her research builds on Research through Design (RtD) or Constructive design research.

She builds on discourses of different communities within and outside design academia. Her work has been published in conferences of CHI, DRS, IASDR, and social science conferences of EPIC, American Sociological Association Annual Meetings. Also, she has received art grants for site-specific performance arts and published work in film and art festivals.

She received her Doctor of Arts on community-based design from Aalto University, Helsinki. There she also started her exploration of design fiction in the post-doc projects in departments of design and business. She has worked with and for various types of clients of public sectors, B2B and B2C corporations, NGOs and local initiatives in the regions of Nordic, China, and Africa.

Education

• Doctor of Arts Aalto University (2012 — 2017)
• Master of Arts - MA Aalto University (2008 — 2011)
• Joint study in master level University of Helsinki (2009 — 2010)
• Bachelor of Science Jiangnan University, School of Design (2004 — 2008)

Companies

• Research Assistant Professor The Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design (PolyU Design) (2020)
• Design ethnoprapher, Design strategist, Associate Partner Originplus (2019)
• Independent artist, project manager (grant awardee) Koneen Säätiö | Kone Foundation (2016)
• Researcher in Department of Business Aalto University (2019 — 2019)
• Post-doc researcher in Department of Design Aalto University (2017 — 2019)
• Doctoral Researcher Aalto University (2012 — 2017)
• Design researcher TANG Consulting (2011 — 2012)