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SHIFTING MONUMENT

DONGCHEN LI

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I am a designer driven by a passion for exploring the future.

My work focuses on interior spaces, exhibitions, and innovative architectural projects, always seeking new ways to create spaces that adapt to changing environments. Over the years, I have been involved in projects such as the NICE2035 Street Renovation, ASTON MARTIN x Tongji Lab,collaborations with ALDO CIBIC, and multiple design conferences in Shanghai.

I am a designer driven by a passion for exploring the future.

My work foc...

My project explores an evolving urban installation set within a dystopian framework, spanning three phases.

Phase 1 (2024-2099) introduces the Social Fabric Module, inspired by bamboo fungus, providing adaptive community spaces. It challenges static aesthetics, embracing speculative design to expand beyond a singular form.

In Phase 2 (2099-2199), as Earth becomes increasingly uninhabitable, the installation grows organically, inspired by mycelium networks, breaking free to expand vertically and horizontally. This phase connects installations into a speculative urban network that adapts to harsh conditions.

Finally, Phase 3 (2200 onwards) envisions a new urban framework where humans return to a regenerated Earth. The installation evolves into a self-sustaining city platform that merges architecture with natural growth, pushing beyond traditional aesthetics to create a collaborative, adaptive urban ecosystem for a dystopian future.

Final work

THESEUS,AND I

My MA project explores an evolving urban installation set within a dystopian framework, spanning three phases. 

Phase 1 (2024-2099) introduces the Social Fabric Module, inspired by bamboo fungus, providing adaptive community spaces. It challenges static aesthetics, embracing speculative design to expand beyond a singular form.

  In Phase 2 (2099-2199), as Earth becomes increasingly uninhabitable, the installation grows organically, inspired by mycelium networks, breaking free to expand vertically and horizontally. This phase connects installations into a speculative urban network that adapts to harsh conditions. 

Finally, Phase 3 (2200 onwards) envisions a new urban framework where humans return to a regenerated Earth. The installation evolves into a self-sustaining city platform that merges architecture with natural growth, pushing beyond traditional aesthetics to create a collaborative, adaptive urban ecosystem for a dystopian future.

blind and partially sighted people

Research and process

blind and partially sighted people

Growing Myceilum process-1

blind and partially sighted people

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SHIFTING MONUMENT

My project explores an evolving urban installation set within a dystopian framework, spanning three phases. Phase 1 (2024-2099) introduces the Social Fabric Module, inspired by bamboo fungus, providing adaptive communit...

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