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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Penthouse for Interspecies Living
Category: Design, Residential
Location: Zhong Shan 中山, CN
Year:
2026



Classics of the Future

Category: Strategy
Location: Worldwide
Year:
2026



Traditional Chinese Medicine Apothecary

Category: Design, Exhibition & Curation
Location: New York, US
Year:
2025


Hot Water is Cool: Shanghai’s Tiger Stove Shops 老虎灶

Category: Editorial
Location: New York, US
Year:
2025



Miutine by Miu Miu
Category: Strategy, Naming, Launch, Design, Activation, Identity
Location: New York, US
Year:
2025



AIR Aspen Art Museum
Category: Strategy, Branding, Digital
Location: Aspen, US
Year:
2025



Resurfacing Hong Kong’s Star Ferry: Inter-Island Asian Imaginaries

Category: Editorial, Peer Reivewed  
Location: Hong Kong, CN
Year:
2025



The Feejee Mermaid x Stefanie Hessler
Category: Editorial, Interview
Location: New York, US
Year:
2024



On Privacy and Prevention: Asian Architecture’s Matriarchal Blueprints
Category: Teaching, Conference
Location: New York, US
Year:
2023



Terraqueous Intimacies: To Sink, Sip, and Swim
Category: Editorial
Location: New York, US
Year:
2023



MAAT: Oceanic Thought
Category: Editorial
Location: Lisbon, PT
Year:
2023



Oceanic Protocols: Navigating Leaks and Troubled Waters

Category: Editorial, Research & Visual Identity
Location: Boston, US
Year:
2023


OffCUT(s): Material Ecologies, J-Term Seminar
Category: Teaching
Location: Boston, US
Year:
2023


Algae Composite Panels
Category: Design, Material Innovation
Location: Boston, US
Year:
2023



The Transmogrify of a Towel

Category: Teaching
Location: Princeton, US
Year:
2022



The Sun Rises & Sets in Revere Beach
Category: Design, Exhibition & Curation
Location: Boston, US
Year:
2021



The Natures of Sanatoria

Category: Editorial, Research
Location:  Worldwide
Year:
2021


No Cure? Caring for Burnout in a Neoliberal Age
Category: Design, Concept
Location:  Hong Kong, CN
Year: 2019



Pierre Paulin Program at Maison Bordeaux
Category: Design, Exhibition & Curation
Location: Bordeaux, FR
Year: 2019


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