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Yi Liu
Yi is a designer from Nanjing, China, with a practice spanning industrial design, interaction design, and cross-disciplinary making. She is drawn to questions of why a product or system should exist and what kind of experience it can genuinely create for the people who use it. Her work is shaped by an ongoing curiosity about materials, technologies, and ways of working, and she finds most satisfaction in the process of turning early, uncertain ideas into clear and workable outcomes through experimentation.
Selected Theme
Formative Worlds
Projects focused on the lives of children and the cultivation of their development through learning and interaction.
VoiceBuilder
A Constructible Narrative Play System for Early Storytellers
Project Description
VoiceBuilder is a constructible narrative play system designed for children aged 6 to 7, addressing the challenge of fragmented and unsustained storytelling in early childhood. By making story structure visible and physically manipulable, it helps children sequence events, sustain characters across scenes, and collaborate with peers. Rather than scripting what children should say, VoiceBuilder offers an operable scaffold that holds their thinking in place while leaving the story itself open, empowering young storytellers to build narratives that are genuinely their own.
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