Kids Architect Personal Statement

As a designer, I am eager to create and share resonating sensory experiences intersecting knowledge, philosophy, and intuitive perception. Originally trained as an industrial designer, I designed with wood, clay, and stones. As my career progressed and my vision broadened, I worked closely with architects and structural engineers, with materials engineers and with graphic designers. I designed products, structures, art installations, exhibitions, workshops and community activities. My more recent works, through the form of exhibit installations, experiment with the interplay of physical interactions through visual perceptions. My designs, through constructed space, material and light, invite exhibit visitors to step into the immersive spaces, to feel them, to play with them, to engage in the …show more content…
I believe experimenting with all the senses is a great method for all kinds of learning and doing. I created a variety of educational curriculums and activities named Kids Architect for museums, schools and nonprofit organizations, which are the first courses in China specializing in providing architectural and environmental education to children as an after school activity. By building 1:1 scale structures, like in Built by Kids and Paper Tube Structure, children could make discoveries in the role of the body in experiencing the physical world by themselves instead of being given answers by adults. Even though Kids Architect is a promising and meaningful project, we could not spread it out for lack of avalable designer as educators. Also there are some safty concern when kids build up big structures so that we need more adults as supervisors. Why not design a serious toys or products that children can build up complex structures without supervision? I realize that I can combine my experience as both designer and educator to make Kids Architect into my own bussiness, which focus on educational design products and design courses for