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01Ginkgo - Unite in DiversityCommunity DesignMaster Thesis project 2017-2018

02Von Hand Zu HandPhotography Book in Valle Aurina2016

03Dizionario degli ErroriIllustration Personal storytelling 2017-Now

04Every Mountain is a FortuneVisual communicationBUTMA Camping Association 2015

05MoiraiIllustrationSTUD Clothing with AVI 2018

01Ginkgo - Unite in DiversityCommunity DesignMaster Thesis Project2017-2018

Ginkgo is a culture communication platform organized by me and the 2nd generation of Chinese imigration of Bolzano.

We organized a series of transcultural events which use Chinese traditional festivals that combine food and common arguments togeth-er to create a shared space demonstrating and discussing the similarities between Europeans and Chinese and the individual differences within Chinese community.

We encouraged participants to get involved as active collaborators instead of audience to question, to challege and to explore the defi-nition of cultural identity and stereotype with 2nd generation of immigrants.

>Introduction Video

Duan Wu workshop was aimed to find potential partners from 2nd generation of Chinese immigrants. I designed the progress of workshop, an interview, tools (cards, etc.) and visual communication around the workshop.

In the visual communication part, I tried to give a fresh impression of traditional Chinese elements on the base of Chinese aesthetic graphics to 2nd generation.

Duan Wu Workshop

San Valentino Cinese

Festa della Nostalgia

Festa della Nostalgia

We collaborated second event Festa della Nostalgia with a Youth Center and enlarged the dimesion of the event.

The argument was about the relationship between food and immigration, how people bring their taste of home with them while travelliing. I designed the process of the event and related visual communication.

> Event Video

In the end, we offer the “skeleton” of the concept and design of the whole project as well as each event online. With the help of this web-site, the local culture associations and authorities can easily build a bridge to Chinese community. By adding their own “flesh and blood” they can develop their own Gink-go Community adapted based on local situation.

> Web Prototype in InVision

02Von Hand Zu HandPhotography Book in Valle Aurina 2016

In Valle Aurina of Alto-Adige, there is a long in-tricate lace making tradition. Their work is very well-known, meanwhile no one knows about the artisans behind the work and how they saved the tradition by passing their knowledge generation to generation.

This photography book focused on the female artisans of different generations. It tried to bring the face hiding behind laces by present-ing their daily working scenery.

03Dizionario degli ErroriIllustrationPersonal Storytelling 2017-Now

When i just arrived in Italy, I felt like a fish living on the land, that is why I created a fish character to represent myself.

This project is inspired afterwards by my daily life of learning Italian. I collected all the speak-ing or understanding errors I made and tried to visualized them with my own fish character.

The initial motivation was to overcome the fear of making mistakes while learning a new language by transferring the fear to something you could laugh at. But at the same time, it also offers a new perspective to reconsider the Italian expression and pronunciation from another culture.

04Every Mountain is a FortuneVisual CommunicationBUTMA Camping Association2015

This project is inspired by my experience during the mountaineering activities with a camping association in the university,aimed to encourage young people to do more outdoor activities in the mountains. For the basis of this project, I selected several mountains we visited with typical characteristics.

The main idea behind this series of illustrations is relatively straightforward: only when you have actual experience of camping in the mountain shall you realized the true meaning of the saying "Every mountain is a fortune", all picture materi-als are via Internet.

05MoiraiIllustration STUD Clothing with AVI2018

This illustration is inspired by Greek Mytholo-gy. I chose Moirai the three godesses of fate as antetype, combined their power and three different insects: Spider, bee and mantis to describe my version of Moirai.

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