Yihan Dong

Yihan Dong is a research-driven designer working across bodies, materials, ecologies and everyday systems. Her practice makes hidden conditions tangible through objects, workshops and speculative forms, moving between women’s health, respiratory care, regenerative materials and ecological futures, often in collaboration with scientists, engineers and cultural institutions.

She is pursuing a practice-based PhD at the Institute of Education, UCL Knowledge Lab, on embodied practices with energy technologies, while continuing ViWipe, a women’s health project with Imperial College London that rethinks menstrual blood as a diagnostic material. Other works include Silt Crystal Glass, turning urban sludge into translucent glass; her honours include Red Dot: Best of the Best and the James Dyson Award UK National Winner.