Critical
position
Sinan Wang is an urban researcher, curator and critical designer working across urban studies, design research and curatorial practice.
Three coordinates
A connected practiceResearch
His research asks how urban space is materially organised through infrastructures, governance, finance and regulation, and how these systems become operative in everyday life.
Ordinary objects—especially street furniture—are treated not as neutral amenities but as interfaces between state, market and citizen.
Design
Design is used as a critical mode of inquiry: a way to analyse, expose and reframe the institutional and spatial conditions that structure daily experience.
Visual systems, moving image and speculative objects make hidden relations visible, discussable and contestable.
Curating
Curatorial practice translates research into public and spatial form. Exhibitions organise dispersed gestures and materials into situations that can be inhabited, negotiated and collectively interpreted.
The exhibition is approached less as a display of conclusions than as a temporary public research infrastructure.
Education
2020—PresentPhD in Design
Glasgow School of Art, UK
MRes in Design Research
Royal College of Art, UK
BA in Visual Communication Design
Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, China