Mingnan (Lucy) DU
Mingnan Du is a designer, educator, and researcher working on participatory public-space design in high-density Asian cities. Trained at The Pennsylvania State University (BLA) and the Harvard Graduate School of Design (MLA II), and formerly a designer with Raymond Jungles Inc. in Miami, she is currently a Lecturer at the School of Design and Innovation, Shenzhen Technology University.
Her built work, teaching, and community-engaged research address a recurring condition in cities: space is provided, yet not appropriated — physically open, socially unclaimed, ecologically performative yet publicly unreadable. Working across the scales of community, site, and territory, her projects use participation and legibility as design media to close this gap.
Across this work runs a consistent exploration of space as a participatory medium — from theatre to gallery to city, and from community courtyards to corporate campuses. She is the founder of an independent design practice and the developer of Herbal Box, a modular medicinal-herb planter system for high-density workplaces.
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HAOWEN LIN I 林浩文 INITIATOR I 联合发起人
PEKING UNIVERSITY I 北京大学 COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
LUCY DU I 杜昕达 FOUNDING INITIATOR I 发起人
HARVARD UNIVERSITY I 哈佛大学 GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY 宾夕法尼亚州立大学 SCHOOL OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE
MIKE ZHANG I 张煜正 INITIATOR I 联合发起人
ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART I 皇家艺术学院
MEIKANG LI I 李梅康 INITIATOR I 联合发起人
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO I 多伦多大学
ALICE ZHOU I 周楚晗 INITIATOR I 联合发起人
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY I 哥伦比亚大学 GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, PLANNING AND PRESERVATION
CHENG ZENG I 曾珵 INITIATOR I 联合发起人
HARVARD UNIVERSITY I 哈佛大学 GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN
CANNING YU I 于璨宁 INITIATOR I 联合发起人
GIT I 佐治亚理工
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