Tiannu Geng (Tino)
About
She is a designer specialising in textile narrative and material experimentation, whose work explores the connections between ecology, technology, and culture. She seeks to construct a perceptible narrative structure using textile language, establishing a new way of seeing between nature and the artificial.
Her work often combines sustainable fabrics, fibre techniques, and multimedia methods to explore the intertwined relationships between ecosystems, cultural memory, and contemporary design language. Her practice integrates multiple production techniques to create multi-layered visual and tactile structures. She excels at provoking reflection on sustainable design language through installations such as future landscapes and pseudo-natural ecosystems, seeking new narrative approaches between technology and nature, reality and misunderstanding.
Her recent projects include ‘Post-Nature: Pseudo-Ecological Narratives in Materials,’ which presents future specimens shaped by current material choices through layered textile samples. These works blend tactile narratives with critical observation, creating visual tension between surface aesthetics and structural contradictions.
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