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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Oceanic Protocols: Navigating Leaks and Troubled Waters

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


Oceanic protocols steer us toward decolonial ecologies of more-than-human onto-epistemologies. Taking the form of  a micropedia, 28 figures proposes a shift in the design field from terra firma to aqua firma. Three central case studies of the Feejee Mermaid, Ocean Floor Maps, and the Dolphin Embassy elaborate on how seawater has always affected design histories and vice versa. The project critically and playfully explores the characteristics of oceans as a medium/a, their materiality, representations, and limits.

Harvard Graduate School of Design M.Des Award









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