liudong.design

Dong Liu is a Designer/Artist/Thinker/Maker from Beijing, China. He graduated from the University of the Arts Berlin in 2019 with a Master’s degree in Product Design. He is now a member of a Berlin-based design group: iii design compact.

In his creative process, he consistently focuses on societal, cultural, and future-oriented thinking, and seeks to integrate technology into his creations. His recent research project aims to balance the unique potential of machining with the material aesthetics of craftsmanship, striving for a non-anthropocentric outcome. He currently lives and works in Beijing Essen Berlin Heilbronn.

Exhibitions

09.2016 – Beijing Design Week, Beijing: Ming-style furniture restoration

02.2018 – Alien Encounter, Berlin: The connection of things.

07.2018 – UdK Rundgang 2018, Berlin: External Memories, Beta-ton.

07.2019 – UdK Rundgang 2019, Berlin: Ghost Buster, Elasti-ply, HUMANAMUH.

10.2019 – We are in this together (Designtransfer), Berlin: HUMANAMUH

10.2019 – Berlin Design Week, Berlin: HUMANAMUH

10.2019 – Reshape Exhibition 2019, Barcelona: PUT ID ON

01.2020 – INTERCONNECTED Online Exhibition: Beta-ton

10.2021 – The Future of Food: Epochal Banquet, Dubai Expo 2020: senses in food

11.2021 – Parallel Residency, Lernlabor, Schloss Schönow: Rediscovering Sound

07.2022 – MUJI Community Market, Berlin: Uncontrolled Candle Machine

09.2022 – World Design Cities Conference, Galerie Joseph, Paris: HUMANAMUH, Ghost Buster

05.2023 – Offject, Monopol Berlin: Uncontrolled Candle Machine