Xinyi Huang
Biography
Xinyi Huang earned her master's degree on Fashion Design Technology from the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, United Kingdom, in 2021. Presently, she is a Design PhD candidate at Edinburgh College of Art, focusing on research areas that encompass fashion-tech design, human-computer interaction, artistic shape-changing wearables, and tactile e-textiles.
During the first semester of 2023, she served as a tutor for the course "Histories and Futures of Technology (Design Robotics)" for MA and MSc Design Informatics. In the course, she introduced the pneum-textile toolkit—developed from her PhD thesis—as a workshop in the curriculum, aiming to cultivate students' design-led perspectives in the realms of robotic material making and user experience design.
Research
Research
Xinyi's PhD research centers on cultivating the affective and aesthetic dimensions of touch based interaction through shape-changing fashion and textiles. She employs a Research-through-Design methodology to navigate this realm, engaging in artistic interaction design projects and design workshops.
Recent publications:
Huang, Xinyi. 2023. “Constructing the Affectiveness and Aesthetics of Touch through Shape-Changing Fashion and Textiles.” The Design Journal 26 (5): 817–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2023.2242092.
Huang, Xinyi, Sarah Kettley, Sophia Lycouris, and Yu Yao. 2023. “Autobiographical Design for Emotional Durability through Digital Transformable Fashion and Textiles.” Sustainability 15 (5): 4451. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15054451.
Liu, Xiangyu, and Xinyi Huang. 2023. “Gold, Skin, and Body: Chinese Buddha Statues Are Constantly Being Shaped and Stripped.” Religions 14 (2): 155. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14020155.