Industrial Design
A Corporeal Instrumentality Project
What if your watch looked towards you to tell time? Grounded in principles of speculative/critical design, this thesis creates interventions on instruments of measure to explore what it means to restructure dimensionality through a body-centred... More
Essay
Berlin Wall Souvenirs and Corporeal Simulacra
An analysis of souvenir-fragments I encountered in Berlin in July 2019, during my exchange semester, through the lens of what I refer to as the "corporeal simulacrum." Reading time: 8–10 minutes. Written for VISD-3022 “Historiographies of Art” with... More
Service Design
Kolding Hospital: Waiting Room Experiences
Welfare design project completed during my exchange semester to Designskolen Kolding in 2019. After scoring poorly in the national survey, the head doctor of the Kolding Hospital E.R. tasked us with improving their patient waiting room experience.... More
Industrial Design
Perspectives on Pokémon Go
I picked Pokémon Go as an initial research topic for the first month of my B.Des. Industrial Design thesis project. I planned and carried out a suite of primary and secondary research methods including semi-structured interviews, ethnographic... More
Other
RECOLLECTION (Concept Prototype: Memory)
When I was asked to tell a story about my neighbourhood, I found myself reminiscing about my nostalgic years spent adventuring up and down the Finch Hydro Corridor, in the north of Toronto, day in and day out in the company of a “fossilized species... More
Industrial Design
Stoneturner Workshop
In October 2019, I planned and facilitated a research workshop based on a condensed version of the Stoneturner activity I’d learned while on exchange in Denmark the previous semester. My goal was to establish a foundation of knowledge for my thesis... More
Industrial Design
Wayfinding Challenge
“In fifteen minutes, find as many of the places on this map as possible. You may not use other maps or GPS devices to assist you.” How do people feel when they engage with the experience of being in interstitial space (or lost)? What tactics do... More
Work by
Allen Wang
Industrial Design, Service Design, Design Research
“I’m a service designer with a passion for critical/speculative work. In my spare time, I enjoy piano, photography, and finding adventure. I've been writing a novel; it's a recollection of sequences...” [More]