MESHWORKS


MESHWORKS is an evolving collection of design research, community collaborations, experiments, and reflections exploring how humans and other species inhabit shared worlds.

Across protected landscapes, rural infrastructures, and everyday multispecies encounters, these projects examine how design can make ecological relations perceptible and support situated practices of care, coexistence, and collective making.


WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO DESIGN WITH MULTISPECIES COMMUNITIES AND THE RELATIONS THAT SUSTAIN THEM?





Together, these works trace how design moves through relationships among people, nonhuman life, technologies, materials, and landscapes.





The name “Meshworks” comes from the idea that life is not a set of separate things connected by simple links, but a tangled, living mesh of relationships. I borrow this term from anthropologist Tim Ingold, and also find it resonates with Chinese ideas about the deep interconnection of all things 
(万物与我为一).




I’m Yuyao Lin,  a more-than-human design researcher & innovation design engineer

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QingYu  Project
Ongoing
Yading Together
Nature Education / Tool Design
Living with the Golden Monkey
Local Product Design / Conservation Storytelling
ResPOND
Care for life after us.
EcoTrack
Bridging Human and Wildlife Communities.
Seed Pods
Nature-inspired forest restoration after wildfire.
Wavering Arc
How to design with a cockroach?
Invasive Flavours
Critical encounter with the invasive.
Eco Gaze
Experiencing avian perspectives.
Pigeon Post
Experience design for pigeons.