Biin Shen

Biin Shen is a designer, artist, and researcher whose work explores creativity across cultural and disciplinary boundaries.

Currently based in Beijing, Biin has lived and worked in London and Tokyo, drawing on a diverse background in commercial design, interactive art, and project strategy. Her practice centres on bridging technological imagination with the multiple futures that lie ahead. She believes that the way we interact with technology reflects the complexities of contemporary society. By examining the evolving relationship between humans and technology, she seeks to spark meaningful social transformation through design-led futures thinking.

Biin is the co-founder of Meaningful Futures, a research and design studio focused on Asia-centred strategic innovation and the development of diverse “research through design” approaches. The studio explores cultural strategy and what she terms “Next Creation” — a holistic(Integrated) practice that integrates design, foresight, and social imagination.

A graduate of the Royal College of Art, where she studied under Dunne & Raby, Biin brings a speculative and culturally grounded lens to her work. Her projects have been exhibited internationally, including at the World Expo, and she has served as a curator and advisor across the fields of art, design, and technology. In recent years, she has played a leading role in localising speculative design in China and introducing world-building as a teaching methodology. She works in collaboration among institutions in China, Japan, and South Korea to investigate new intersections between Asian cultural thinking, artificial intelligence, and emerging technologies.

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