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 a professional B.Arch from 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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No Cure? Caring for Burnout in a Neoliberal Age

Category: Design, Concept
Location: Hong Kong, CN
Year: 2019


Today’s hyper-efficient cities are the breeding grounds for burnout, the chronic illness of our time. Infected by neoliberal attitudes, contemporary minds operate at speeds beyond the biological body. The Apothecary Grave-Garden is a reminder to embrace slowness and inefficiencies, taking the issue of health from individual responsibility and restoring it more appropriately to our social surroundings.  

7.2 x 6.5 ft / 220 x 200 cm
mixed media, acrylic, ink, dirt, collage, analogue & digital

Charles Goodwin Sands Medal, Cornell University AAP











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