Feejee Mermaid — CoCo Tin

CoCo C. Tin 田智婷 (b. Hong Kong) is a Cantonese designer, writer, and scholar specializing in ecological systems and cross-cultural relations. She is the founder of CO2 PROJECTS, a practice researching regeneration through aquatic media, climate technologies, and new commons.

Her interdisciplinary approach spans Design, Strategy, and Editorial, collaborating with international studios and clients on special projects in luxury fashion, arts & culture, and urban development, including Prada, Miu Miu, WSA, Aspen Art Museum, Canadian Centre for Architecture, OMA/AMO, alongside institutions like Harvard GSD, Princeton SoA, and Cornell AAP.

Her writing has appeared in The Architect’s Newspaper, FAR-NEAR, Rumor Review, DISC, Pairs, and other publications. Her work has been exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Architectural Association, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the UN Climate Change Conference, and the Évora Museum.

She holds a post-professional M.Des from Harvard Graduate School of Design and a professional B.Arch from Cornell University AAP, both with Distinction and Awards.

She currently lives in New York, is Associate Director of Strategy at 2x4, and most recently taught at Yale University.

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The Feejee Mermaid x Stefanie Hessler

Category: Editorial, Interview
Location: New York, US
Year: 2024

CT: We've ended on an interesting slippage between object and subject that mermaids and oceanic work afford. In wet environments, this binary is simultaneously magnified but also dismantled completely. Humans at sea need incredible machinery and equipment, almost to the point where we become objects and no longer subjects, magnifying the politics of who even gets counted as a being at sea.

SH: I love that messiness because I think that that's really where we're at. Everything is messy, and acknowledging that and then saying, “Where do we go from this point of messiness?” is what can lead to productive conversations and approaches. And acknowledging that being in this messiness, and still being able to act from within it, is also a position of privilege.

Interview by CoCo Tin
Edited by Isabel Lewis, Adrea Piazza, and Andrea Sandell
Designed by Siyu Mao
Printed by Grafiche Veneziane

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Harvard Graduate School of Design