Mianwei Wang

Mianwei Wang

Designer in New York City, She/her

About

Mostly a designer

Projects

Ongoing
Japan Design Workshop

A sneak peek of the minimap that I developed for the JDW site. 👀

About JDW
Professor Shun Kanda has orchestrated Japan Design Workshop in MIT for around 30 years, where he led a group of students to site-specific studies in Japan. This site documents the places that the workshop has focused on into four 'books.'

2024

Antikythera: Philosophy of Planetary Computation, a new journal published by MIT Press that updates philosophy for the 21st Century.

2023

An archive of a 3-month exhibition in a sub-street, open-air site, explores habitat through mixed reality installations, performances, and community events.

2022

Friend of a Friend is a yearly gathering that brings together a group of individuals, all connected by mutual friends but who do not know each other yet.

Side Projects

2024
There Is No Sincerity Without Irony

TINSWI is an exhibition curated by Joyce Chung, took place in AHL Foundation, west Harlem. The exhibition showcases installations and objects by Asian female artists for a discussion on bodies and identities.

2023
lunares

lunares is an installation and book project by artist Hyeree Ro, emerged from an unexpected death she faced in the Summer
of 2022. The book comprises essays by seven writers, each reflecting on Ro’s performance work from the past seven years. Together, the book and installation form a constellation of medi- tations on the expansive nature of Ro’s practice and the ways in which interdependence blossoms.

Work Experience

2021 — Now
Freelance Designer at Self Employed
New York
  • Design and develop interactive web applications, collaborating with clients from independent practices to institutional scales

  • Create narrative-rich digital environments with robust functionality and user experiences

  • Partner with global clients and design studios to deliver innovative solutions across print and digital

  • Build responsive and accessible web experience using modern front-end and design technologies

2024 — Now
Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute
Brooklyn, NY
2023 — Now
Visiting Instructor at Yale University
New Haven

Instruct the Intro to Interactive Design course at the art school in Yale Summer Session.

2024 Course Website

2021 — 2023
Adjunct Faculty at Parsons, UConn, Rutgers
NJ, NY, CT

Education

2019 — 2021
New Haven, United States
2018 — 2018
2012 — 2016

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