Aiwen Yin
she/herSurvival Kits for Intentional Communities
Aiwen Yin is a designer, theorist, strategist and project developer, who uses writing, system design, time-based art, institutional practice and community building to examine the social impact of planetary communication technologies. She advocates relationship-centered design as a strategy to redesign, re-engineer and reimagine the relationship between technology and society. Yin is the Pathway Leader of Situated Design in the Master Institute of Visual Cultures, the Netherlands. She founded and directs Stichting NextKin which researches and develops future-proof social support systems based on long-term mutual caring relationships. 2019 Yin received the INFORM prize for Conceptual Design for her work.
Project
Survival Kits for Intentional Communities is a set of toolkits that offers guidelines for “artivist communities” that consist of art practitioners who work on socially-engaged art or projects of an activist nature, or activists that use art as a means of their activism, to realize their collective needs and social ambitions. It’s aiming to be the Belbin report for the artivists whose roles are not (only) aimed at productivity, but the collective fulfillment and social transformation through art.
