Xijing Xu 徐溪婧
[ʃˈiːd͡ʒɪŋ] [ʃˈyː ]
About
I am a designer with a background in product/industrial design who also engages in fermenting, baking, and occasionally painting, writing
In 2016, I completed my BA in industrial design at China Academy of Art in Hangzhou. Since 2017, I have been living in Berlin, where I completed my MA program in product design at the Universität der Künste Berlin in 2018.
With both my BA and MA projects centering around the topic of food culture and story, my design and research focus increasingly gravitated toward food-related experience and the social spaces created by cooking and sharing meals.
Current
– Running a creative design research duo "tofoodesign".
We design objects, installations, events about and around the food experience.
– Assisting various artists and artist studios, participating in the research and planning for the production of original artworks, and the design of their installations and exhibitions.
– Voluntering at Bündnis Feuer und Flamme, an urban baking project with a communal open-fire oven in Mehringdamm, Berlin.
I am always looking for collaboration and exchange in or out of my focus area.
Past
– From 2019 to 2023, I worked for three years at infarm, a Berlin-based indoor farming company. As an industrial designer, I was involved in the technical development of different scales and models of the hydroponic farming units, as well as their operating and POS system.
– From 2015 to 2017, I supported the experimental food design project ChiTofu, initiated by designer Fang Hu, by assisting with the design of the event tableware and installation, as well as several event organisations,
2024
Co curation & Exhibition at
Singapore Design Week
2024
Participated in Unverdient – A 10 month biographical theatre research on the undeserved, lead by Elena Ferri
2023
Project Wanderer, presented at 酵醒生活节, Berijing
2022
Project Fortune Desserts, presented at The 7th abC Art Book Fair, Beijing
2021
Project Wanderer, presented at 珍食, Shenzhen
2019
Project Wanderer, presented at Seek Novelty, Hangzhou
Project Wanderer, presented at 食社春秋, Jingdezhen
Project Wanderer, presented at Salone Satellite, Milan
Project Wanderer, presented at IMM Cologne 2019, Cologne
2018
Project Wanderer, presented at Cantouchthis* UdK Master Graduation Show, Berlin
Project Tofu Drink, presented at Youth Design Day in Japan 2018
Project Tofu Drink, presented at Fuorisalone, Milan Design Week
2023 食通社·Foodthink
2022 Content contribution for the yearly book Food Design Voices 2022
2019.03 the DIFD
2019.03 IDEAT China
2019.02 Designboom
2019.01 Edible Alchemy
2018.05 The Artling
2017 《千里之行》
2016.6 AD China
2016.6 Vice China
2016.6 凤凰艺术