# Project Description But how will I be remembered? Phoebe Lemon Summary Final work Phoebe Lemon is a Chinese adoptee raised in the US and currently based in London. Working at the intersection of computation, design, and humanities, her work explores themes of place, belonging, and becoming as a Chinese adoptee and Chinese diasporic person. She is interested how creative media and technology can be used not purely as products or outcomes, but rather as a lens to question how structures of inequality move between on and offline spaces, where histories, stories, and identities become lost between its cracks. Phoebe Lemon is a Chinese adoptee raised in the US and currently based in London. Working at the ... College UAL Creative Computing Institute Course MA Internet Equalities Graduation year 2025 But how will I be remembered? is a prototype for a community-led digital archive created through the designer’s own search for agency and belonging as a Chinese adoptee. The work began by confronting the gap between instituionalised records and lived experience, mediated through state documentation, redaction, and loss. Out of this encounter grew a collective design process with adoptees who continue to question how they are remembered, represented, and recorded. The title echoes a question left in a TikTok comment by a Chinese adoptee in the wake of recent policy changes suspending international adoption from China. It is both a plea and a provocation, asking what remains of us when our history is missing, altered, or never written at all. The prototype reimagines the archive as a space for agency and participation, where adoptees reclaim the authority to write, share, and preserve their own stories beyond bureaucratic control. Final work Main Interactive Pages: #Dialogue, #Map, #PhotoBank, and #Database These main interactive pages are where most stories are stored. Their designs and features were built on the archival values co-designed by adoptees in my research process, where I observed our communities desire for criticality of diverse and sometimes opposing perspectives, balancing personal versus collective storytelling, and autonomy in telling our stories in the most honest and vulnerable ways we can. To respond to these needs, aspects such as the ability to reply to others contributions, having different theme tags to sort through conversations, and a varying level of interactivity and visualisations in each page were implemented. Personal Account page, Community Manifesto, and Community Guidelines The archive also makes space for more static ways of remembering such as a traditional data table, as well as a personal storage space for adoptees past artifact submissions. These pages were built on adoptees' need for privacy, care, and respect needed for sharing online, as well as sensitivity to adoptees emotional needs and labor, which recognizes that participation and visibility looks different for each adoptee at different times. Examples of Artifact submissions Prototypic artifact submissions that show examples of how adoptees can submit their data in multiple forms, including text, images, video, and sound. Artifacts are also sorted in a database relationally by self-defined theme tags and can be replied to with other Artifacts, creating a thread of stories and conversations. The information presented in these artifacts do not reflect participants actual data from the research process and are purely based off my own account only. How to Interact: a walkthrough This video demonstrates how adoptees can engage with the archive by submitting their materials, viewing others' contributions, and replying to each other. The submission process in particular, collectively brainstormed by Chinese adoptees in workshop sessions, allows them to choose which of the main pages (#Dialogue, #Map, or #PhotoBank) they wish to contribute to. They can define their own meta data such as its title, location, relevant theme tags, and visibility settings. These features aim to foster a sense of agency in shaping how their stories are created, recorded, and stored, a means of taking back narrative control that many feel is lost within institutional records. Research and process Share this project But how will I be remembered? is a prototype for a community-led digital archive created through the designer’s own search for agency and belonging as a Chinese adoptee. The work began by confronting the gap between instituionalised records and lived experience, media... A link to this page has been added to your clipboard Browse related work Access, Ability & Inclusivity Activism Archives & Collections Community Data Histories Identity Activism Co-creation Co-design Collaboration Community Data Memory Storytelling