looking for my next job or freelance opportunities - most passionate about amplifying creators and entrepreneurs
About
I am interested in the whys and hows, and thinking again. Working at the intersection of community-building, storytelling, and experience design, I am on the look out for new ways to impact the creator economy and future of work spaces.
Previous held roles in Editorial, Community, Culture, Product.
Open to full-time & freelance work, say hi here or at pinhan.lim@gmail.com!
Side Projects
Creative Living is a photography series documenting how creatives live and work in their homes and studios.
Objectively is a weekly newsletter about our objects and the stories they tell.
We feature creatives who build their lives around objects, including makers, collectors, and curators.
Leading with curiosity, the project views objects as an extension and embodiment of humanity, and hopes that exploring our relationship with them gives us new understandings of ourselves.
#30 out now!
PULSE/PULSE is a world built for creatives.
Currently taking shape as a studio and journal, we are collaborating with creatives to amplify their purpose.
The aim is to create a network of people, ideas, and resources on living a creatively-fulfilling life.
“Please find attached my Failed Cover Letters for your perusal.”, or Failed Cover Letters for short, is a zine of 48 cover letters of mine that didn’t get the job.
Shown at Studio Lotusroot, London, in April 2023.
Work Experience
Product Manager (Sep 2019 - Nov 2021)
Community Lead (Nov 2021 - Oct 2022)
Culture Lead (Oct 2022 - Apr 2023)
More on linkedin.com/in/pinhanlim/
Writing
STAPLE is a sociocultural magazine for the curious—featuring artists, designers, writers—distributed across 12 countries. I contributed to issue no. 2 with two interview articles, one with an archivist and the other with a (design) research lab.
The edition, themed Objects of Delight, focused on our consumption and perceptions of ‘objects’. I took an anthropological approach, uncovering themes like private and public, materiality and immateriality, memory, art and artefact, the concept of home, and the ‘eternality‘ of the internet.
Education
I wrote my dissertation on "'Technological Fix': Humanoid Robotics as Socio-Political Strategy in Japan".
Robots pervade workplaces, homes, and bodies. I embarked on this topic as I was interested in the ethical and cultural implications of advancing technologies on people and societies.
We often forget that humans are behind the creation of technologies — which are created to interact with us — and thus they hold human sentiments and even biases.
Through this dissertation, I hope to highlight that robotics could reveal what it means to be human — our desires, identities, and politics, in conceptualising and interacting with them.