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Turning six independent research practices into one shared exhibition.
Care Code Culture was an independent research showcase bringing together six designers working across interaction, systems, installation, and research-through-design. Alongside exhibiting my own work, I helped organise and produce the exhibition, shaping how six very different practices could live together as one public experience.
Roles
Co-organiser · Exhibition Producer · Curator · Designer · Exhibiting Artist
Areas
Exhibition Production · Creative Direction · Event Planning
· Communications · Public Programming
Recognition
RMIT Vietnam Learning & Teaching Week — Best Poster Presentation Prize | 2025
National Conference on Educational Science — Hanoi | 2025
RMIT Learning & Teaching Festival — Melbourne | 2025
Beyond 1&0 Symposium — Ho Chi Minh City | 2025
Six projects. One very busy room.
The exhibition brought together six research-led practices spanning subjects as different as caregiving infrastructure, AI’s water consumption, intergenerational memory, vernacular language, agricultural knowledge, and the future of human creativity.
Rather than forcing those projects under one narrow theme, we built Care Code Culture around a shared interest in the things technology tends to make invisible — the everyday systems, relationships, knowledge, and forms of care that are easy to overlook.
Building more than an exhibition
We wanted the showcase to work as a space for exchange, not simply a room of finished outcomes.
Alongside the installations, we developed a programme of talks and workshops that allowed visitors to engage with the research processes behind the work. The exhibition therefore moved between looking, interacting, discussing, and participating, creating multiple ways into six very different research topics.
The final programme took place at Arts x Tech Lab in Singapore, with the public exhibition supported by a dedicated website, event listings, artist and artwork information, and workshop programming.
"Talks and workshops extended the exhibition beyond display, giving visitors ways to discuss the questions, methods, and ideas behind the projects."
"The event website brought together artist profiles, artworks, programme information, registration, and practical visitor details into one public-facing platform."
Making six practices feel like one event
My role extended beyond presenting Living Familial Archives and Stories Mailbox.
As part of the organising team, I worked across the practical and creative layers required to turn a group exhibition into a coherent public-facing event — from planning and communications to programming, production, exhibition setup, and coordinating how visitors encountered the work.
The challenge was to give each project enough space to retain its own voice while still making the exhibition feel intentional as a whole.
"I presented Living Familial Archives and Stories Mailbox, bringing my own research on play, intergenerational communication, and participatory archiving into the wider exhibition context."
From research cohort to public platform
Care Code Culture gave our individual research a life beyond the university context.
By bringing the projects together independently and opening them to the public, the exhibition became a platform for testing how research-led design could communicate outside an academic setting — through installations, conversations, workshops, and direct audience participation.
For me, it was also an opportunity to work at a larger scale: not just designing an experience inside an exhibition, but helping design the conditions for the exhibition itself.
