吴 润曦
Wu Runxi
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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 The Era of Plover Croc
SELECTED WORK
鸻鳄纪元 The Era of Plover Croc
作品关键词 Keywords
山海经 基因重组 共生 合成生物 软机器人
"Legends of Mountains and Seas” ;
Gene recombination ; Symbiosis ;
Synthetic ; Biological soft robot
设计说明 DESCRIPTION
《鸻鳄纪元》是基于未来环境生存叙事语境，设计出的一组附着于人体以”共生“的新物种生命体。
作品挪用《山海经》中“人兽结合体”经典的基因重组逻辑，试图探索可能性的未来物种存在，并结合相应的世界观建构，创造出一部基于当下，存在于未来的“山海经”——《鸻鳄纪元》。
其中以“不同时期核辐射污染下发生的社会事件”为原型，设计了一组能够适应不同地域极端环境、习性各异的机械生命体；在虚拟的叙事语境下，生命体寄生于人体之上以填补人类器官功能进化空白，给予人类极端环境下的生存保护；而人体作为寄生对象也为生命体提供了更为稳定的生存居所。通过生命体“附着——共生——逃离”的交互路径模拟叙事下“人与新物种生命体”的共生体验，引发对于“人与自然共生关系”的批判性思考。
The Era of Plover Croc is a series of new lifeforms designed to attach to the human body in a “symbiotic” manner, set within a future environmental survival narrative context.
This work appropriates the classic genetic recombination logic of “human-beast hybrids” from the Classic of Mountains and Seas, attempting to explore the existence of possible future species. Combined with corresponding world-building, it creates a “Classic of Mountains and Seas” rooted in the present yet existing in the future— The Era of Plover Croc.
Drawing inspiration from “societal events triggered by nuclear radiation contamination across different eras,” it designs a series of mechanical lifeforms capable of adapting to diverse extreme environments and exhibiting distinct behaviors. Within this fictional narrative, these lifeforms parasitize human hosts to fill evolutionary gaps in human organ functions, granting humans survival protection in extreme conditions. In turn, the human body provides these lifeforms with a more stable habitat. Through the lifeforms' “attachment—symbiosis—escape” interaction pathway, the narrative simulates the symbiotic experience between humans and these new species, prompting critical reflection on the symbiotic relationship between humanity and nature.
核心技术与工艺 Core Technologies and Processes
1、数字化工具的利用：
作品抽取《山海经》中“社会需求，功能满足，人的基因”这三种参与组成因素。在叙事拟定的核污染背景下，基于现有存活生物形象，将三类因素作为形象生成变量；通过Runway、StyleGAN算法等数字化工具；训练计算机进行深度学习，生成图像，探索算法思维下对于未来物种的可能性想象。
1. Utilization of Digital Tools: The work extracts three participatory elements from the Classic of Mountains and Seas—“social demand, functional fulfillment, and human genes.” Against a narrative backdrop of nuclear contamination, it employs existing surviving biological forms as visual generation variables. Through digital tools like Runway and StyleGAN algorithms, computers are trained in deep learning to generate images, exploring algorithmic possibilities for future species.
2、可穿戴技术、新型材料的应用——软体机器人制作：使用硅胶材料制作以实现生命体的仿生触感；运用3D打印工艺及arduino等交互技术达到其仿生形态。
潜力：是否能够将合成物学与设计相联系，集成生物技术和数字系统，使共生生命体成为真正意义上具有可设计性的新陈代谢功能的人造生物。
2. Application of Wearable Technology and Novel Materials—Soft Robotics Fabrication: Silicone materials are employed to achieve biomimetic tactile sensations of living organisms. 3D printing techniques and interactive technologies like Arduino are utilized to realize their biomimetic forms.
Potential: Can synthetic biology be integrated with design, combining biotechnology and digital systems to transform symbiotic lifeforms into genuinely designable artificial organisms with metabolic functions.