吴 润曦
Wu Runxi
Profile
wurunxi@caa.edu.cn
Hi, I'm Runxi—a creative researcher passionate about design and technology.
I received my bachelor's degree (2022) in Art and Technology from the School of Innovation Design at China Academy of Art, where I was honored as a provincial and university-level outstanding graduate. I then pursued a master's degree (2025) in Art-Empowered Innovation and Technology (Intelligence and Ecology track) through the university's recommendation system. I conducted research internships at Tongji University's School of Design and Innovation in the Intelligent Big Data Visualization Lab, and later worked as a Visual Design Engineer at iFlytek.
My current goal is to become a human-computer interaction researcher. My research interests include well-being-centered interactions, future empathy design, sustainable human-computer interaction, and data narrative experiences. I explore how design can transform definitions, create compelling user experiences, and foster creative learning and sustainable development.
CV SELECTED WORK
匿形阳台
The Unseen Balcony
2024-2025, Master's Thesis & Final Project
VR Game, Immersive Ecological Simulation
Wu Runxi
This work constructs an interactive, navigable microclimate ecosystem within urban balcony spaces. Visitors transform into bee-like ecological sentinels, traversing a composite structure integrating “body systems—balcony systems—microclimate systems.” When balcony organs are redesigned as bio-inspired structures—ventilation systems breathe like lung lobes, drainage circuits...
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数字蒲公英花园：学术成就的交互式可视化呈现
Digital Dandelion Garden: An Interactive Visualization of Academic Achievements
2024-2025, Paper
Tang Yinqi, Xie Jiayi, Li Chenpu, Wu Runxi, Cao Shixiong, Cao Nan
"Digital Dandelion Garden: Interactive Visualization of Academic Achievements" presents an innovative approach that bridges the natural world with data visualization, transforming academic achievements into a dynamic ecosystem of dandelion seeds...
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全球变暖的隐喻性语言：基于动物体色变化驱动的数据物理化方法
Metaphorical Language of Global Warming: A Data Physicalization Approach Driven by Shifts in Animal Coloration
2024-2025, Paper
Peng Yechun[1], Wu Runxi[1], Pan Fengyi, Zhao Yuanjin, Shi Yang
This paper introduces an metaphoric data physicalization that employs sculpture as a medium, incorporating new media and heatsensing technologies to convey global warming data. The data physicalization employs shifts in animal fur coloration as metaphors for global temperature increases, visually illustrating the impact of climate change...
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金壶元日
Golden Vase on New Year's Day
2023-2024
IOT Interactive Kinetic Games
Wu Runxi, Xiang Wenxi, Chen Ze, Kuang Lanyu, Zheng Yiheng
The project approaches from the perspective of intangible cultural heritage preservation, integrating the traditional Chinese game of “arrow throwing” with emerging technologies such as virtual reality and motion-sensing interaction. It employs ancient Chinese paintings as the narrative medium for interactive gameplay, further exploring the game's content diversity across dimensions of time, space, and objects. Its content is grounded in “two defining...
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时·
律
Time · Rhythm
2022-2023, Undergraduate Thesis & Project
Interactive Installation / Image Deep Learning / Motion Capture / Soft Robotics
Wu Runxi, Liu Jinxuan, Pan Huangfuyu
In an accelerated social context, the rhythms of human and non-human entities begin to undergo passive distortion. We seek to make this invisible rhythmic phenomenon observable and perceptible.
The work Rhythm of Time takes the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal as its case study. As a geographical entity that has undergone shifts in rhythmic pace, and as a transportation artery imbued with Chinese humanistic sentiment, it has witnessed the passage of time throughout history. It thus becomes a special point, a transition point, and an origin point—relatively static in the rhythmic dimension. As Lefebvre wrote in Elements of Rhythmanalysis: “Wherever there is interaction between place, time, and energy expenditure, there is rhythm.” Therefore, we captured extensive landscape production data from different sections of the canal. Through machine learning algorithms, 3D scanning, motion capture, and other technological media, we established on-site data installations and media imagery. This created an interactive digital twin experience, inviting viewers to perceive how our rhythmic sensibilities are shaped within the encounters of time and space, and to contemplate how the human body connects with the landscape.
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华夏非华夏
China is not Huaxia
2021-2022
AR Recognition Model; AR Interaction
Zhang Zixi, Wu Runxi, Wang Qingsong, Lei Yangke
The project is a digital art and architectural exploration integrating biological data, traditional culture, and artificial intelligence. Based on the biological fact that “97.6% of Chinese people are of mixed ancestry,” the work aims to reexamine and reconstruct the marginal definitions of “ethnic minorities” and “Huaxia” identity....
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鸻鳄纪元
The Era of Plover Croc
2021-2022
Wearable Design, Synthetic Biology, Soft Robotics
Wu Runxi, Liu Jinxuan, Deng Yilei
"The era of plover croc" is based on the narrative context of the survival of the future environment, designed a group of new species of life attached to the human body to achieve “symbiosis".
The work appropriates the classic genetic recombination logic of "combination of human and animal" in "Legends of Mountains and Seas" , tries to explore the possibility of the existence of future species, and combines with the corresponding construction of the world view to create a "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" based on the present and existing in the future -- "The era of plover croc".
Based on "social events occurring under nuclear radiation pollution in different periods" as the prototype, a group of mechanical living bodies that can adapt to the extreme environment in different regions and have different habits are designed. In the virtual narrative context, living organisms parasitize on the human body to fill the gap in the evolution of human organs and protect the survival of human beings in the extreme environment. The human body as a parasitic object also provides a more stable residence for life. Through the interaction path of "attachment -- symbiosis -- escape" of life, the symbiosis experience of "man and new species of life" in the narrative is simulated, and the critical thinking about "symbiosis relationship between man and nature" is triggered.
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象与象语
Elephant Says
2021-2022
Critical Design, Contextual “Object”
Zhang Zixi, Wu Runxi, Ye Zihang, Zhou Peiyu, Kuang Lanyu
Taking Zimbabwe's future ecological-ethical dilemmas as its speculative context, the project focuses on breaking down the emotional barriers between humans and elephants. Centered on the physiological effects of infrasound transmitted by elephants, we designed a “third organ” augmentation system comprising an “amplifying mask” and “elephant ears.” This endeavors...
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Elem-Kits
2021-2022
Modular Design, Outdoor Play Equipment
Wu Runxi, Yu Tianyun, Liang Jiaxuan
This product is a children's outdoor exploration kit comprising four basic components and connectors. By assembling these parts, it enhances the playfulness of outdoor activities while connecting children to knowledge about plants and energy, creating highly engaging outdoor adventure gear. The four component series draw inspiration from the four major plant organs (roots, stems, leaves, fruits) and correspond to the four natural elements...
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根·际
Root·Edge
2020-2021
Museum Digital Exhibition Design, Interactive Data Visualization
Wu Runxi, Wang Qingsong, Shen Jianxiong
Glass culture, following the footsteps of overseas Chinese, spreads like the roots of a nation across the globe. This work is an interactive data landscape with a science-popularization focus, designed within the context of a thematic exhibition hall based on glass architecture data from diverse geographical spaces. Its overall appearance draws a metaphor from a “tree”....
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萦回
Eternal Return
2019-2020
Service Design, Product Design, UI Prototyping
Zhang Zixi, Wu Runxi, Deng Yilei, Lei Yangke
The “Eternal Return” project is a funeral service system designed with environmental protection, green burial policies, and sustainable development in mind. It integrates the return to nature upon passing with the preservation of lasting memories, emphasizing emotional comfort and continuity.
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