Ning Kang
About
Ning is a design researcher and creative. She has lived in megacities almost all the time, from Beijing to London. This has led her to focus on structural issues concerning the dilemmas of modern life throughout her postgraduate studies this year. She has experimented with different forms of themes such as algorithms, dating, living spaces, and labelling.
Among these themes, dating has been present in her research journey. She kept a diary for 30 consecutive days to record her experiences with dating apps, using autoethnography to study dating as a product of modern life. She created a stop-motion animation to critique the design mechanisms of dating software. She then went on to critique the commodification of people and the alienation of love in the use of dating apps through the Love on the Assembly Line project.
These projects encourage people to think and feel about the absurdity of everyday dating behaviour while experiencing the project.
Currently, she is using design to improve the status quo of awkward openings and meaningless information exchange in offline dating. Using a more abstract and hazy way to help people get the multi-sensory experience when a romantic relationship is first established. Leads people to think about whether romance comes more difficult or natural after abandoning figurative verbiage?
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