Linh Dao


Assistant Professor, Interaction Design, California Polytechnic State University. 

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Linh Dao

Interaction Design, Assistant Professor, California Polytechnic State University

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Quilt Stop
2020




What stories about immigration are currently existing in our design work? Who is telling them? And most importantly, how are these stories being told? At what point does a person cease to be a person and become a number instead? Can empathy replace biases in our understanding of the world and how do we facilitate that change with our practice?

Rigorously analog; narrative; intimate; memories; born from found materials, often salvaged from garments of treasured origin; portable; laborious; and usually made by women. I am interested in the quilt as a body of intimate narratives.

Truck: Mobile; storable; enclosed. I am interested in the truck as a body of immigrants, in this case, both literally and metaphorically, for the 39 immigrants who died in the Southeast of England in November of 2019.

Even thought the truck is a symbol of mobility, it arrived while the people it carries did not. It is an object of fluidity and movement but also is a monument piece, a relic, of sort.

I use a generative quilt to represent this arbitrary object. It is both a body of immigrants and of their stories, each is different: The reasons for why they left, and the reasons for why they deserve a better life.