The 2023 Wheelwright Prize is awarded to Jingru (Cyan) Cheng
Harvard University has announced UK-based transdisciplinary design researcher and academic Jingru (Cyan) Cheng as the winner of the 2023 Wheelwright Prize for a materials-based proposal titled Tracing Sand: Phantom Territories, Bodies Adrift that focuses on sand and its ecological impacts in multiple settings. Cheng, who is currently an instructor at the Royal College of Art in London, has delved into similar research in the past and says she will travel to locations in Singapore, Miami, Vietnam, and rural China as part of the two-year, $100,000 research prize, which follows 2022 Graham Foundation Grant and two RIBA President’s Awards for Research from 2018 and 2020.Cheng shared, "The proposal of Tracing Sand is the convergence of my different lines of work so far, the teachings that made me an architect, and the life experiences that made me. I see architectural materiali- ty as an active, tangible force driving and shaping long chains of consequences and dependencies. It draws surprising connections between sites, communities, and ecologies. Winning the Wheelwright Prize affirms that the questions I’m after are part of the larger quest of architecture today, at a time of intensified social injustice and ecological crisis."Read the full post on Bustler
Harvard University has announced UK-based transdisciplinary design researcher and academic Jingru (Cyan) Cheng as the winner of the 2023 Wheelwright Prize for a materials-based proposal titled Tracing Sand: Phantom Territories, Bodies Adrift that focuses on sand and its ecological impacts in multiple settings.
Cheng, who is currently an instructor at the Royal College of Art in London, has delved into similar research in the past and says she will travel to locations in Singapore, Miami, Vietnam, and rural China as part of the two-year, $100,000 research prize, which follows 2022 Graham Foundation Grant and two RIBA President’s Awards for Research from 2018 and 2020.
Cheng shared, "The proposal of Tracing Sand is the convergence of my different lines of work so far, the teachings that made me an architect, and the life experiences that made me. I see architectural materiali- ty as an active, tangible force driving and shaping long chains of consequences and dependencies. It draws surprising connections between sites, communities, and ecologies. Winning the Wheelwright Prize affirms that the questions I’m after are part of the larger quest of architecture today, at a time of intensified social injustice and ecological crisis."Read the full post on Bustler
