Yi-Jing Chen
Growing with Garments
Growing with Garments
‘Growing with Garments’ created a living system on garments and invited participants todesign, grow and wear them for a month. The experiment revealed that people tend to pay more attention and give more care to the materials in use when living organisms participate in a design. Facilitating human mindsets is a new direction for biodesign to prospect.
Yi-Jing Chen (she/her) is a Taiwanese fashion researcher and designer based in the Netherlands. She graduated from Critical Fashion Practices at ArtEZ in 2022. Her current research is dedicated to interspecies collaborative design in fashion. By connecting her background in psychology, she is searching for playful ways to build environmental awareness and mutually beneficial relationships across species.
