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 Transmogrify of a Towel
Category: Teaching
Location: Princeton, US
Year:
2022


A lecture exploring towel as essential architecture with Balenciaga F/W’22 collection and scenography as case study. The whiteness of the towel against the whiteness of snow begs us to reckon with the towel’s profound semiotics. Though Demna’s narrative is a courageous display of vulnerability, what does the towel itself say? What is the rhetoric of the thing in itself? 

ENG 294: Literature and Fashion at Princeton University

Invited by Professor Anne A. Cheng and TA Moeko Fujii 













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