Yizhou Han

Textiles (MA)
A night-time selfie of Yizhou Han with long black hair.
A lab-grown textile mesh held by tweezers, showing a translucent green biostructure developed through material experimentation.
A lab-grown textile mesh held by tweezers, showing a translucent green biostructure developed through material experimentation.
Biofabricated textile created during lab experiments exploring living materials and structural integration.
Close-up of a patterned textile featuring interlocking spiral and cross-like forms in white and light green tones.
Close-up of a patterned textile featuring interlocking spiral and cross-like forms in white and light green tones.
Microscopic view of a bio-textile surface, showing a repeating structure that explores growth patterns and modular design.
Side-by-side comparison of bio-textile samples before and after algae growth, showing changes in color and texture on modular structures.
Side-by-side comparison of bio-textile samples before and after algae growth, showing changes in color and texture on modular structures.
Growth comparison of bio-integrated textile modules: left image shows initial stage, right image shows algae colonization and structural transformation.
Close-up of a translucent 3D-printed structure intertwined with green algae, showing material fusion and growth support.
Close-up of a translucent 3D-printed structure intertwined with green algae, showing material fusion and growth support.
A 3D-printed scaffold providing structural support for algae growth, highlighting the integration of digital fabrication and living systems.
A lab-grown textile mesh held by tweezers, showing a translucent green biostructure developed through material experimentation.
Close-up of a patterned textile featuring interlocking spiral and cross-like forms in white and light green tones.
Side-by-side comparison of bio-textile samples before and after algae growth, showing changes in color and texture on modular structures.
Close-up of a translucent 3D-printed structure intertwined with green algae, showing material fusion and growth support.

About

Yizhou Han is a bio-textile practitioner exploring how natural rhythms and living systems can activate textiles as responsive, evolving materials—capable of breathing, growing, and adaptingover time.

By integrating algae, biodegradable substrates, and 3D-printed structures into her textile practice, she investigates how biological colour, structural transformation, and material symbiosis can emerge through time-based processes. For her, colour is not something applied, but something that grows.

Her work examines the dynamic relationships between nature, chaos, and human-made systems, rethinking the designer’s role—from controller to collaborator with ecological rhythms.

Positioned at the intersection of art, ecology, and material science, her practice aims to develop a co-creative design language rooted in life processes, offering new imaginaries for sustainability and multispecies symbiosis.

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