Yin Aiwen
Commons.art
Netherlands · Design
Yin Aiwen is an artist, designer, researcher, and occasional institutional strategist. Departing from the idea that “the technological is institutional, the institutional is technological”, Yin reconsiders and reimagines the socio-economic, cultural, emotional, and bodily conditions, etc. by designing the new techno-institutional around care ethics.
Image courtesy Yin Aiwen
Yin initiates and designs ReUnion Network, a welfare system long-term mutual-aid networks and family of choice since 2017. With Yiren Zhao and Zoe Zhao, she co-created Liquid Dependencies, a multiplayer role-playing game that serves as an experiential simulation of ReUnion Network and a peer-to-peer education that brings the knowledge of mutual aid and care from the game to the real-life experience. Together with Binna Choi, Yin co-initiates Commons · Art, an initiative to create a horizontal, care-based funding platform for socially-engaged art with decentralized ledger technology.
Commons.art. Courtesy Yin Aiwen.
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