About — Alien Yuning

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Yuning Chen is a practice-based PhD researcher and a biodesigner working at the intersection of multispecies ethics and biotechnology. Her research primarily focuses on the notion of care-fullness in the context of biodesign through the lens of multispecies epistemology, ethics and sociality. She mainly uses sci-art, design fiction and critical design as creative methods to provoke discourse on more-than-human labour, co-authorships and welfare.

Education

PhD Researcher (Multispecies care in biodesign)
Design Informatics
University of Edinburgh

Innovation Design Engineering
Royal College of Art, MA
Imperial College London, MSc

Environmental Science
South China University of Technology, BSc

Industrial Design/Minor
South China University of Technology

Conference/Workshop

Co-organiser/Workshop presenter, The Third International Symposium of Design for Temporal Ecologies
Temporal Origami

Speaker/Panel Moderator, BIOCENE 2022, Ohio Aerospace Institute
Materials of the future and the Future of biomimetic materials

Speaker/Panellist, Ecological Commons, Waag Society, Dutch Design Week 2022

Speaker/Panellist, WEVE 2022, London Design Festival 2022

Workshop presenter, DRS (Design Research Society) 2022, Bilbao, Spain
Consequence scanning for responsible research in biodesign

Panelist, Green 2021, Biomimicry Weekend, Granada, Spain

Workshop presenter, Global Biosummit 5.0, 2021, MIT, USA
Multispecies worlding workshop

Workshop presenter, IASDR 2021 (International Association of Societies of Design Research)
Design and Science Cards for biodesign

Publication

Valk S, Chen Y, Dieckmann E, et al., 2022, Supporting collaborative biodesign ideation with contextualised knowledge from bioscience, Codesign, ISSN:1571-0882

Valk S, Chen Y, Nguyen M, et al., Ideation and Consequence Scanning Beyond Human Perspectives in Biodesign, Design Research Society 2022

Välk, S., Chen, Y., Mougenot, C. (2022). Towards a Designerly Way of Thinking for Bioengineers with ‘Design and Science’ Cards. In: Bruyns, G., Wei, H. (eds) [ ] With Design: Reinventing Design Modes. IASDR 2021. Springer, Singapore.

Välk, S., Chen, Y., Kalossaka, L., Kim, R., Mougenot, C., Pschetz, L., Ramirez-Figueroa, C., Sayuti, N.A.A., & Sommer, B. (2022). Narratives in Biodesign☆Bridging Methods, Processes and Tools. In Congress of the International Association of Societies of Design Research (pp. 3623-3623). Springer, Singapore.

MacCowan, R., Chen, Y., Nadathur, S. (2021) The state of Nature Inspired Innovation in the UK, 2021, Biomimicry Innovation Lab

Awards/Recognition

Finalist, Scientific Breakthrough of the Year, Science and Art Category, The Falling Walls Science Festival, 2022, Berlin, Germany

Honourary Mentions, ST+ARTS Prize, 2021, European Commission

Futures Award Long List, Lumen Prize, 2021

Runner Up, KI Award, 2020

Bronze Prize Winner, China Internet+ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition 2020

First Place Team Winner, ClimaTH.0n 2020

Selected Exhibition

Sustainable China, London Design Festival 2022, London, UK

ST+ARTS Festival 2021, Bozar Lab, Centre For Fine Arts, Brussels

York Design Week 2021, York, UK

We Will Design, Milan Design Week 2021

Design in an Age of Crisis - London Design Biennale 2021
Elastic Arctic

Dutch Design Week, 2020
Project Habitate
Elastic Arctic

Imperial College London/Royal College of Art
Work in Progress Show/Feb 2019
Project Habitate

Imperial College Summer Show /Jul 2019
Mobius