Making people feel is a simple enough sentance, yet it takes HU Haijie almost his entire career as a spatial creator and designer to practise.
HU gives several examples of his own practise to demostrate how to better make people feel. Hu Haijie is the co-founder and creative director of VAV STUDIO, a spatial experience firm. As an interdisciplinary pioneering designer and long-term practitioner of narrative spaces, his research focuses on cutting-edge fields such as hybrid fields, emotional engineering, and hidden technology.
In 2013, Hu Haijie and Tobias Geisler co-founded VAV STUDIO, a spatial experience firm, in Frankfurt, Germany, focusing on spatial narrative in the fields of interaction and experience. Subsequently, they established VAV STUDIO teams in Shanghai and Shenzhen in 2015 and 2022 respectively. Since 2022, he has served as an overseas tutor at the China Academy of Art and a practice professor at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou); and since 2024, he has been appointed as a visiting professor at the School of Design, East China Normal University. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
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