Tao Chen

Designer. Committed to exploring cooperation with more than humans, community-oriented, and social service innovation.

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Touch the Crack, 2023

Whether parruk or parricus, the origin of the word park is always closely associated with fences and hunting. Then it gradually evolved into an urban green space used for public leisure and entertainment. So what should the 'park' of the future be?

The project incorporates the designer's interest in plants and object-oriented ontology into the design approach. The future of urban green spaces is envisioned through the promotion of interdisciplinary dialogue and the broad participation of residents. 

In the project we explore: 
How to awaken people's perception
Concept and order
Aboriginal wisdom
Performative enactment of the body
Breaking the single perspective of natural science since experience and ontology
The excess of a ritual or celebration.

*Exhibition: Rule 6, No Rule Set,
1 Deptford Church Street, SE8 4RX London,
14th-18th Dec 2023

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Twist, 2023

Hair records and reflects a person's history, story, identity, and thoughts. But it goes from 'something we hold dear' to 'rubbish' in the single act of falling out. The project uses the vast amount of discarded hair in the area as a medium to create new experiences that the community can participate in, articulate and reorganize the community's culture, and integrate and connect residents from different cultural backgrounds with each other.

The project explores how the potential of local materials such as common materials, waste, culture, and lifestyles can be tapped into and how art can be brought into informal settings and public spaces for all to use.

Co-designer:  Yaohan Zhang,  Wenwu Gao, Hui Zhang, Xiaopu Shi


*Deptford X Art Festival 2023,
Deptford Lounge,Giffin Street, SE8 4RJ London,
22 Sep-1 Oct 2023

*The Creative Collective  2023,
53 Deptford Broadway, SE8 4PH London,
1st- 24th Oct 2023.

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Play with the River,2023

While river studies often use waterways as data collection sites for citizen science-led environmentalism, we consider how risk can be a resource for design.

We are trying to bring the playground back to the environment and inspire kids to have more interaction with rivers. We drew attention to how play is limited, and how the river is a resource for more rewarding types of play.

Co-designer: Xinru Huang, Xinyi Zhao, Jiayu Lin,  Xinran Xia


*Canal Dream Art Festival 2023,
Regent’s Canal, KingsCross,London,
12th-25th Jun 2023.

*London River Week 2023,
Ladywell Fields, 126Ewhurst Rd, SE14 1SD, London,
29th May - 4th Jun 2023.


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MG,  2021

Some stationery designed to enhance the expressiveness of the user.

*Shanghai M&G Stationery Inc.
34/98/5973


Wild Neighbour, 2021

The story began five years ago, when there was a big news in Shanghai. A wild animal was found in a community, which is the protagonist of the "civet cat exchange prince" in the fairy tale. The citizens are so happy, for most people, this is a legendary animal. However, they did not expect that there would be more than 5,000 raccoon dogs in Shanghai in just five years. They began to covet human trash cans, went to barbecue stalls to report on time, and even learned to beg.

As China's urban ecology changes (urban rewilding), wildlife is slowly returning to cities and trying to adapt to urban life. How to deal with the relationships, conflicts, and constraints between urban wildlife and people will become an increasingly important part of China's urbanisation process. Similarly, it is not only the objects that need to be designed that are in crisis but also the practice of design itself. What we need to address is not only how to design more ecological and sustainable buildings, facilities, and parks. Rather, it is how to imagine alternative ways of designing that cater to the complex lives of many species. How do we incorporate into design the efforts of urban wildlife to adapt to the city? How can animals and designers design together?
















Ushima,  2020

It is designed to solve the problem of using space in international school libraries. It is a system furniture that integrates bookcases, screens, sofas and cushions. It can form different learning scenarios, realize their mutual transformation, and reduce environmental interference.

* Novah System Technology Co.



In There Out There,  2022

How to find new or interesting ways to exist, operate, make, produce, publish, broadcast, impose (ourselves) through new/ individual-centric approaches and alternative interventions in design? 

In this project, the designer used herself as an experiment to explore how they could exist in a new neighbourhood. The garden as an object between private and public, the plant as a language with sliding space in human life, what kind of fire can its presence in this place ignite?


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Binge-Benji, 2022

Design of therapeutic aids: 
Transforming the patient's self-examination into observation of the other by personifying "Bulimia Nervosa (BN)" and "Binge Eating Disorder (BED)". 
It allows the patient to recognise the objective, independent existence of the disease. Make the patient's self-awareness treatment process friendlier and more healing.
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