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Dr Bow Wu

Email

yiying.wu@sydney.edu.au

Address

G04 - Wilkinson Building

The University of Sydney

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Member of China Studies Centre

Member of Sydney Southeast Asia Centre

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Biographical details

Bow is a design researcher and Lecturer specializing in social design at the University of Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning. She gained her PhD degree from Aalto University Finland on the topic of community-based design. Before joining USyd, she has worked as post-doc researcher in design fiction at Aalto University, and as research assistant professor in service design and multidisciplinary collaboration at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Research interests

Her overarching interest lies in design methodologies aimed at transitioning from old narratives to new narratives. These methodologies encompass:

· The Participatory Approach:to democratize the envisioning of future scenarios, involving diverse social actors especially the marginal voices.

· The Critical Approach:to reimagine narratives by questioning established conventions and assumptions

· The Interventionist Approach:to rehearse future and alternative narratives through design interventions and experimentation

· The Discursive Approach:to foster debate and discussions to negotiate new possibilities.

Teaching and supervision

She is currently open to supervising PhD candidates with interests in social design, service design, and design fiction.

Current research students

Project title	Research student
Aspiration and relationship: Empowering ageing in place healthcare service by interacting with smart homes	Renxuan LIU

Publications

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Book Chapters

Wu, Y., Whalen, J., Koskinen, I. (2015). "Nothing makes sense": New aesthetics of experiences in self-organizing services. Empowering Users through Design: Interdisciplinary Studies and Combined Approaches for Technological Products and Services, (pp. 249-266). London: Springer International Publishing. [More Information]

Journals

Wu, B., Acharya, K. (2024). Breaching-through-Service: Accounting and Shaping Social Order with Service Design. Design Issues, 40(4), 54-66. [More Information]
Wu, B., Lin, Z. (2024). Future newspapers as a participatory design tool for Chinese rural service innovation. The Design Journal, , 1-20. [More Information]
Wu, B., Pan, S., Yu, Y. (2024). The metaphorical capacity of future-food: Enhancing design's role in public engagement with emerging technologies. The Design Journal, , 1-19. [More Information]
Wu, B., Buker, L. (2024). Unfinished feminist futures: Designer's fiction, theorist's interpretation, and educator's reflection. The Design Journal, , 1-19. [More Information]
Wu, Y., Koskinen, I. (2022). Plant Hotels: designing the imaginary foundations of communities. CoDesign, 18(1), 32-47. [More Information]

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Conferences

Wu, B., Lee, J., Pillai, A., Cho, J., Ahmadpour, N., Roto, V., Sachathep, T., Liu, J., Sawan, M., Song, D., Grace, K., Astell-Burt, T., et al (2024). Collective Imaginaries for the Futures of Care Work. In Companion of the 2024 Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, San Jose, Costa Rica: CSCW Companion. [More Information]
Hepburn, L., Ulas, E., Cabrera, D., Cooper, C., Gough, P., Grace, K., Hespanhol, L., Hoggenmueller, M., Hu, W., Ijaz, K., Meron, Y., Pinilla Palacios, A., Parker, C., Sosa Medina, R., Tekmen Araci, Y., Watts, J., Wu, B., Zafeirakopoulos, M., Lulham, R. (2024). Speculative design positions on future liveable cities. DRS2024: Boston, Online: Design Research Society. [More Information]
Wu, Y., Acharya, K. (2023). The blank white paper as a disobedient object. The 10th Nordic Design Research Society (Nordes) Conference, Norrkping, Sweden: Design Research Society. [More Information]
Wu, Y., Yu, Y., An, P. (2022). Dancing with the Unexpected and Beyond: The Use of AI Assistance in Design Fiction Creation. 34th Australian Conference on Human- Computer Interaction (OzCHI ’22), New York, United States: ACM New York, NY, USA. [More Information]
Yu, Y., Wu, Y. (2022). Design fiction as a Novel Approach to Cultivate Awareness of Social Responsibilities in Engineering Students. 2022 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference, Limerick, Ireland: IEEE. [More Information]
Wernli, M., Yiying, W., Chen, S. (2022). IASDR' 2021 Workshops Framework. IASDR 2021 With design: Reinventing Design Modes, Hong Kong: Springer. [More Information]
Yiying, W., Lehtonen, M. (2022). Inattentive in Social, Active in Mind: VR-Based Design Intervention for Imagining Desirable Possibilities in the Public Space. IASDR 2021 With design: Reinventing Design Modes, Hong Kong: Springer. [More Information]
Wen, X., Wu, Y. (2022). Slowing Plants, Slowing Home Proposing A Plant-Decentred Perspective to Human-Plant Interaction. 12th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Participative Computing for Sustainable Futures, NordiCHI 2022, Aarhus: The Association for Computing Machinery. [More Information]
Acharya, K., Yiying, W. (2020). "Where is your other half?": A Wedding shaped by the Profile, Politics and Potential of the Indo-China Border. Synergy - DRS International Conference 2020, Brisbane: DRs. [More Information]
Wu, Y., Lyckvi, S., Roto, V. (2019). ‘What is fair shipping, anyway?’ Using design fiction to raise ethical awareness in an industrial context. 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2019), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Wu, B., Lyckvi, S., Roto, V., Huusko, M. (2018). Eagons, exoskeletons and ecologies: On expressing and embodying fictions as workshop tasks. 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Huusko, M., Wu, Y., Roto, V. (2018). Structuring and engaging - The roles of design fictions in a co-design workshop. 30th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction, United States: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Lyckvi, S., Roto, V., Buie, E., Yiying, W. (2018). The role of design fiction in participatory design processes. 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Yiying, W., Koskinen, I., Lee, J., Whalen, J. (2015). Plant Hotel: service as a relational agent. Interplay: International Association of Societies of Design Research Conference (IASDRâ™15), Brisbane: International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR).
Yiying, W., Whalen, J. (2013). Design practices of local users and the community; The case of Ugandan street vendors. 5th International Congress of International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR 2013), Tokyo, Japan: International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR).
Yiying, W., Gong, M. (2012). The Design Challenge of Bridging Bottomup Initiatives and Top-Down Governance. Cumulus Helsinki 2012, Aalto: Aalto University.

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2024

Wu, B., Acharya, K. (2024). Breaching-through-Service: Accounting and Shaping Social Order with Service Design. Design Issues, 40(4), 54-66. [More Information]
Wu, B., Lee, J., Pillai, A., Cho, J., Ahmadpour, N., Roto, V., Sachathep, T., Liu, J., Sawan, M., Song, D., Grace, K., Astell-Burt, T., et al (2024). Collective Imaginaries for the Futures of Care Work. In Companion of the 2024 Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, San Jose, Costa Rica: CSCW Companion. [More Information]
Wu, B., Lin, Z. (2024). Future newspapers as a participatory design tool for Chinese rural service innovation. The Design Journal, , 1-20. [More Information]
Hepburn, L., Ulas, E., Cabrera, D., Cooper, C., Gough, P., Grace, K., Hespanhol, L., Hoggenmueller, M., Hu, W., Ijaz, K., Meron, Y., Pinilla Palacios, A., Parker, C., Sosa Medina, R., Tekmen Araci, Y., Watts, J., Wu, B., Zafeirakopoulos, M., Lulham, R. (2024). Speculative design positions on future liveable cities. DRS2024: Boston, Online: Design Research Society. [More Information]
Wu, B., Pan, S., Yu, Y. (2024). The metaphorical capacity of future-food: Enhancing design's role in public engagement with emerging technologies. The Design Journal, , 1-19. [More Information]
Wu, B., Buker, L. (2024). Unfinished feminist futures: Designer's fiction, theorist's interpretation, and educator's reflection. The Design Journal, , 1-19. [More Information]

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2023

Wu, Y., Acharya, K. (2023). The blank white paper as a disobedient object. The 10th Nordic Design Research Society (Nordes) Conference, Norrkping, Sweden: Design Research Society. [More Information]

2022

Wu, Y., Yu, Y., An, P. (2022). Dancing with the Unexpected and Beyond: The Use of AI Assistance in Design Fiction Creation. 34th Australian Conference on Human- Computer Interaction (OzCHI ’22), New York, United States: ACM New York, NY, USA. [More Information]
Yu, Y., Wu, Y. (2022). Design fiction as a Novel Approach to Cultivate Awareness of Social Responsibilities in Engineering Students. 2022 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference, Limerick, Ireland: IEEE. [More Information]
Wernli, M., Yiying, W., Chen, S. (2022). IASDR' 2021 Workshops Framework. IASDR 2021 With design: Reinventing Design Modes, Hong Kong: Springer. [More Information]
Yiying, W., Lehtonen, M. (2022). Inattentive in Social, Active in Mind: VR-Based Design Intervention for Imagining Desirable Possibilities in the Public Space. IASDR 2021 With design: Reinventing Design Modes, Hong Kong: Springer. [More Information]
Wu, Y., Koskinen, I. (2022). Plant Hotels: designing the imaginary foundations of communities. CoDesign, 18(1), 32-47. [More Information]
Wen, X., Wu, Y. (2022). Slowing Plants, Slowing Home Proposing A Plant-Decentred Perspective to Human-Plant Interaction. 12th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Participative Computing for Sustainable Futures, NordiCHI 2022, Aarhus: The Association for Computing Machinery. [More Information]

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2020

Acharya, K., Yiying, W. (2020). "Where is your other half?": A Wedding shaped by the Profile, Politics and Potential of the Indo-China Border. Synergy - DRS International Conference 2020, Brisbane: DRs. [More Information]

2019

Wu, Y., Lyckvi, S., Roto, V. (2019). ‘What is fair shipping, anyway?’ Using design fiction to raise ethical awareness in an industrial context. 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2019), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]

2018

Wu, B., Lyckvi, S., Roto, V., Huusko, M. (2018). Eagons, exoskeletons and ecologies: On expressing and embodying fictions as workshop tasks. 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Huusko, M., Wu, Y., Roto, V. (2018). Structuring and engaging - The roles of design fictions in a co-design workshop. 30th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction, United States: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
Lyckvi, S., Roto, V., Buie, E., Yiying, W. (2018). The role of design fiction in participatory design processes. 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]

2015

Wu, Y., Whalen, J., Koskinen, I. (2015). "Nothing makes sense": New aesthetics of experiences in self-organizing services. Empowering Users through Design: Interdisciplinary Studies and Combined Approaches for Technological Products and Services, (pp. 249-266). London: Springer International Publishing. [More Information]
Yiying, W., Koskinen, I., Lee, J., Whalen, J. (2015). Plant Hotel: service as a relational agent. Interplay: International Association of Societies of Design Research Conference (IASDRâ™15), Brisbane: International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR).

2013

Yiying, W., Whalen, J. (2013). Design practices of local users and the community; The case of Ugandan street vendors. 5th International Congress of International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR 2013), Tokyo, Japan: International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR).

2012

Yiying, W., Gong, M. (2012). The Design Challenge of Bridging Bottomup Initiatives and Top-Down Governance. Cumulus Helsinki 2012, Aalto: Aalto University.

Selected Grants

2024

Examining the impacts of emerging technologies on the aged care workforce: Towards a sustainable and ethical future of care workers, Wu B, Lee J, Ahmadpour N, Cho J, Astell-Burt T, Song D, Kettley S, Soares L, Roto V, Caic M, Office of Global Engagement/International SDG Collaboration Program