CoCo C. Tin 田智婷 is a Hong Kong-born designer, strategist, and writer specializing in cross-cultural investigations and alternative ecologies. She is trained as an architect and works with global collaborators to bring complex worlds to life. Recent research includes oceanic protocols, climate technologies, and bygone commons.

Her interdisciplinary practice spans Design, Strategy, and Editorial — building forecasts, initiatives, brands, books, furniture, exhibitions, spaces, and experiences. 

Clients and collaborators include: Prada, Miu Miu, WSA, Aspen Art Museum, Canadian Centre for Architecture, OMA, Food Architects, Collective Studio, Harvard GSD, Princeton SoA, Cornell AAP, and more. Her writing has appeared in FAR-NEAR, Rumor Review, DISC, Pairs, and other peer-reviewed publications. Her work has been exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Architecture Association, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, UN Climate Change Conference, Évora Museum, and other cultural institutions. 

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

She currently lives in New York, is a Senior Strategist 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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