I’m from Shanghai, China and majoring in art and design. I’m collaborating on celebrating the creative and educational community of Michigan with The Creative Process, as well as working on design elements. As an artist and designer, I love to collaborate and interact with people from different backgrounds.
I’ve recently worked on a discursive design project creating a reparations app that allows people to send money for reparation to people who are eligible to initiate conversations about reparations. I was also involved in a project that collaborated with high school students from the Detroit community high school to create a business model of a footwear company by teaching them design skills to make products like sandals. My plan for the future is to work on more projects that initiates conversations and could create an impact on people. I love to collaborate with different artists or people with different skill sets because it is an opportunity for us to learn from each other and gain more inspiration to create the most interesting work.

I think the important part of the the arts/creativity is inspiration and communication. I think we need to communicate with different people and do a lot of research in order to have a good source of inspiration and have enough source to create something that a lot of people would appreciate. As I was doing research for many of my projects, I’m often surprised by how much information and knowledge I’m able to get from researching. From collaborating with the creative process, I hope to learn from other members and share my experiences and stories with them as well as our creative processes. It is an amazing opportunity for us to gain more insights and become more open minded about things as we work together. I am looking forward to the projects I’ll be working on and meeting new people along the way.