Ines · Ziyou Yin

Ziyou Yin (Ines, she/her) is a native Cantonese and Hakka born and raised in Guangdong, China.

She is a G.B.A.-based (G.B.A., the Greater Bay Area in China) design researcher, who is currently conducting her Ph.D. research at the School of Design, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong SAR, China), supervised by Prof. Kin Wai Michael SIU.

She has backgrounds in Communication in Media, Arts, and Design for her bachelor's degree at BNU-HKBU UIC (China) and in UX Design for her MA degree at UAL (UK).

She has been exploring embodied, multi-sensory experience design, LARP design, as well as critical thinking and speculative thinking with co-design methods since her master's. Themes including interpersonal connectedness, technology development, feminism, sustainability, cyborg, and human senses are her research interests in the field of design. She is also interested in Philosophy and Film Studies, and is trying to integrate her findings in various disciplines in her design research.