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Glass for A Blind Child

January 7, 2018March 24, 2024yokospace2015, architecture, competition

This is a competition we participated and lost in 2015. The competition has been sponsored by a glass company for the past decades, many topics therefore were closely connected with glass. This year is the 50 year anniversary, maybe that’s why the topic is called “the glass”, asking participants rethink the role of glass in architecture.

Sugar from a C2C World @XXI Triennale

January 18, 2018March 22, 2024taoresearchmilan, 2016, research, italy, exhibition, culture

On October 2015, yoko saw a news on Facebook, shared by a never-really-talked friend. It was a call for under-35 designers participating the 21st triennial of Milan.

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ImageJanuary 8, 2018March 18, 2024yokoimage, yoko can drawcat, life, art, 2017, yoko can draw

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Granted Calendar

January 9, 2018March 24, 2024yokoobjectproduct, 2016

People write plans on calendars. That’s why many calendars leave spaces for writing. But it’s boring. That’s why you only do it on the first 2-3 days every year:

1 January: Change myself this year
2 January: Must write down my plan everyday

A horror story: Imagine you are 100 years old and you take out 100(-6) different looking calendars and found the same thing written on the same place, while the rest were left empty.

Monthly Trend-watching by Granted Calendar

January 8, 2018March 24, 2024yokoimage, researchgraphic, product, life, 2017, research, communication

Granted Calendar is not a calendar. Calendar tells people today is Friday, April has 30 days and 5th is Saturday. Granted Calendar goes deeper, unveiling the underlying patterns of time that nobody has ever seen. These hidden messages could possibly assist you on study, career, thinking, relationship, and almost any human activity. In a word, smart people follow Granted Calendar.

Granted Calendar grants us to do trend-watching of any given week, month, and year. From January to May of 2017, we have tried to predict what would happen in each month by looking carefully at Granted Calendar.

Yoko Poco ma Yoko

December 22, 2017March 23, 2024taoresearch2015, workshop, milan, think twice, education, italy

You see, we did trick on the feedback rating stars:

Then we got back some trickier stars:

Nose touching? Hands on!

ImageJanuary 17, 2018March 24, 2024taoimagecat, life, art, 2016, yoko can draw

Hunter

ImageJanuary 6, 2018March 7, 2024yokoimagegraphic, 2016, research, language

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The Tower

January 17, 2018March 23, 2024taoobjectpublic space, 2016, user participation, china, wuhan, installation

In his 30s, our artist friend CK asked us to design his apartment. In our near 30s, together with his new media studio, we did an illuminated tower in Wuhan.

Surely, at the beginning, nobody knew there would be a tower.

The Tower (video)

ImageJanuary 18, 2018March 23, 2024taoobjectpublic space, art, 2016, china, wuhan, installation

Bach Shop

January 17, 2018March 23, 2024taospace2014, milan, interior, user participation, italy, shop

We met Bach when we were about to leave Milan in October 2013. We were selling our no-need-anymore stuffs. She came to our place to take a tent in a morning. We talked a little while and agreed to arrange another time to talk longer. She then went on her one day trip to somewhere. We soon left Milan, into the mountain.

Several months later, we were told that she had got a place in Corso Porta Ticinese in Milan, an undoubted popular spot pretty near city centre. It was a great step forward for Bach from running online business to having a real shop in such a place. We were quite happy when she asked us to be her consultants on interior design. Moreover, Mi, who studied industrial design in school and works in a famous Milanese styling company joined us.

Composed by Bach (interactive design), Bach’s boyfriend Yuan (automobile design), Mi (product & styling design) and we two (architecture), a multi-disciplined team was formed.

Coat’s eye

ImageJanuary 6, 2018September 17, 2020yokoimage, researchanimal, graphic, think twice, nature, 2016

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ImageJanuary 6, 2018March 24, 2024yokoimage, researchgraphic, think twice, 2016, language

Landstrich

January 16, 2018March 23, 2024taospacepublic space, art, think twice, 2013, sculpture, competition, duisburg, germany, landscape

The green cycle path that runs through the heart of Thyssen-Krupp Steel’s large industrial site offers visitors a chance to pass through a monumental industrial landscape. Still in operation, 24 hours a day, here one is lost in time and adrift in history.

The Chosen Wall: Studio Network Party

January 17, 2018March 23, 2024taospace2013, interior, china, wuhan

Cai Kai is a new media artist but quite familiar with design, since he used to earn his life by doing “day jobs” in design companies. Now, with the other partners, he opened his own studio: Network Party.

Instant Holiday

January 6, 2018March 22, 2024yokoobject, researchlife, 2014, think twice, interior, prototype, valsassina

Thanks to the big window facing east, our bedroom is filled with sunshine from early morning till noon in clear days. During the period of not being too cold, say from late spring to early autumn, we would open the window and let our pillows sunbathe there.

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