Tung‘s

Tung’s

ACuriousCreator

Research

Embodied Meaning-Making and Designable Relations

With a background in physics and design, I investigate how embodied experience makes social relations meaningful, and how technological mediation can reconstruct them as designable structures.

Works

Selected Design and Visual Practice

Design projects, visual experiments and interactive prototypes developed across different contexts and media.

Writing

Blog, Diary and Reading Notes

Essays, observations, personal records and notes made while reading and thinking.

I’m applying for PhD programmes. If you’re looking for a doctoral student, I’d love to hear from you.Not a PhD supervisor? I’m also looking for a girlfriend. If you’d like to date me, I’d love to hear from you too.

Microblog

晚睡有时候也不一定是坏事情哦

不对

早起有时候也不一定是坏事情哦

Staying up late is not always a bad thing. No— getting up early is not always a bad thing.

上海市 Shanghai

未成小隱聊中隱,可得長閑勝暫閑。

我本無家更安往,故鄉無此好湖山。

Not yet a recluse in the hills, let me be one amid the town; better lasting leisure than a passing rest. I have no home—where else should I go? My native land has no lakes and hills so fair. Source: Su Shi, “Five Poems Written While Drunk at Wanghu Tower on the Twenty-Seventh Day of the Sixth Month,” No. 5 (《六月二十七日望湖楼醉书五绝·其五》).

上海市 · 同济大学（嘉定校区） Shanghai · Tongji University (Jiading Campus)

夏日如何能没有绣球

What would summer be without hydrangeas?

本来买的是假花以期案头绣球常开毕竟鲜花总会凋谢以我现在的心情实在不可忍接受还想着什么时候如果我可下决心买些鲜花养着到那时估计没什么能让我烦恼的事情了吧一看到寄来的假花，立即扔到垃圾筒里面买了新鲜的绣球花来，不知道能开到什么时候

I originally bought artificial flowers, hoping to keep hydrangeas blooming on my desk forever. Fresh flowers always wither, and in my present state of mind I simply could not bear that. I even thought that perhaps, when I could finally bring myself to keep fresh flowers, it would mean there was nothing left to trouble me. The moment the artificial flowers arrived, I threw them straight into the bin. I bought fresh hydrangeas instead. I wonder how long they will bloom.

上海市 · 同济大学（嘉定校区） Shanghai · Tongji University (Jiading Campus)

嘉定乡毋宁进城记 2026/06.14

A Jiading country mouse goes to town · 2026/06.14

上海市 · Chili‘s（滨江店） Shanghai · Chili’s (Riverside)

新笔记本的内页正好弥补了我字的问题

The ruling in my new notebook happens to make up perfectly for my handwriting.

同济大学（嘉定校区） Tongji University (Jiading Campus)

整理了一下

前几天在东京一个礼拜的记忆和收获

I spent some time gathering together the memories and keepsakes from my week in Tokyo.

东京 Tokyo

子夜的茶壶依然是热着的🍵

At midnight, the teapot is still warm 🍵

同济大学（嘉定校区）惟新馆 Weixin Building, Tongji University (Jiading Campus)

很好的一部纪录片，

我在从东京回来的路上看完了。

整个关东平原有3600万人，

整个日本列岛有1.2亿人。

可把视角放在每个人身上，

整个世界明明只有自己一个人。

在绝望的隔绝和孤独中，

无法表露自己的内心，

无法以真面目示人，

以至终于在沉默中爆发；或者在沉默中灭亡。

大家都开玩笑说我是日本人。

可惜如果这样看的话，

我早就和日本人一样了罢。

我不想当“日本人”

A very fine documentary, which I finished on the journey home from Tokyo.

The Kantō Plain holds thirty-six million people; the Japanese archipelago, one hundred and twenty million. Yet seen through the eyes of any one person, the entire world seems to contain that person alone.

In despairing isolation and loneliness, unable to reveal the heart, unable to show one’s true face, one finally erupts in silence—or perishes within it.

Everyone jokes that I am Japanese. Sadly, seen this way, perhaps I became just like them long ago.

I do not want to be “Japanese.”

哔哩哔哩 · 迷失东京 Bilibili · Lost in Tokyo ↗

上海市 Shanghai

也是在晴空塔喝上生日景观酒了

（今天是阴历生日，一年两个生日不过份吧哈哈）

At last, a birthday drink with a view of Tokyo Skytree.

Today is my birthday by the lunar calendar. Two birthdays a year is hardly excessive, is it? Haha.

东京 · Piccole Lampare & Roof Top Sky Bar Tokyo · Piccole Lampare & Roof Top Sky Bar

24岁的第一天

从24小时不眠的东京开始🎂

The first day of being twenty-four begins in Tokyo, a city awake twenty-four hours a day 🎂

东京 · 东京塔 Tokyo · Tokyo Tower

一般这样炎热的天气

来一碗酸酸甜甜冰冰凉凉的朝鲜冷面是最爽的

现在在这里很难吃到了

In heat like this, nothing feels better than a bowl of Korean cold noodles—tangy, sweet and ice-cold.

They are so hard to find here now.

上海市 Shanghai

夜晚的时钟转的确实比白天快

我还一直记得刚吃完晚饭不久

一转头只发现窗外的天空亮了

我到底还是把自己全留给了黑夜

At night, the clock truly does run faster than by day. I could still remember having only just finished dinner; then I turned around and found the sky outside already bright.

In the end, I gave all of myself to the night.

上海市 · 同济大学（嘉定校区） Shanghai · Tongji University (Jiading Campus)

这就是午后的春日啊

This is what a spring afternoon feels like.

上海市 · 同济大学（嘉定校区） Shanghai · Tongji University (Jiading Campus)

什么是“现代”？什么是“进步”？什么是“未来”？

我这辈子见过的东西里面，

没有比太阳之塔更“现代”、更“进步”、更“未来”的东西了。

——即使他已经56岁了

P1 是我现在桌子上矗立的的太阳之塔

P2 是1970年大阪世博会时的太阳之塔

P3 正好是一年前的今天（2025年4月14日），我专程去大阪亲眼见到他的时候，站在他脚下留下的照片

What is “modern”? What is “progress”? What is “the future”? Of everything I have seen in my life, nothing is more modern, more progressive, or more futuristic than the Tower of the Sun.

Even though it is already fifty-six years old.

P1: the Tower of the Sun now standing on my desk. P2: the Tower of the Sun at Expo ’70 Osaka. P3: exactly one year ago today, 14 April 2025, when I travelled to Osaka expressly to see it with my own eyes and took this photograph at its feet.

上海市 Shanghai

假期无聊仿照日本古典物语写了一则小故事

很久很久之前的某年的四月份

有一个从唐国来的人在山阳道上游历

当他游历到舞子之浜这个地方的时候

在牛车上看到海岸上站着一个女孩

她穿着一袭天蓝色的衣裳

左手举着闪闪的铜镜

迎着日光朝着唐国人微笑

这个女孩的容颜

相信连月国的辉夜姬看到之后

也要自惭形秽地用桧扇遮住自己的脸

何况是凡世的普通男人呢

唐国人正要将头伸出牛车

想要多看一眼女子的绝世容貌

可惜这女子早不见踪影

在接下来的一路上

唐国人的脑袋一刻也不敢收回牛车里

生怕再错过这位女子的显现

可直到姬路唐国人也没再见过这女子一面

只打听到这个女子的名字唤做安香诗乃渡比卖

唐国人坐船回到唐国后

整日对着大海发呆

天边日出日落多少回

海岸潮涨潮落多少次

唐国人仍然忘不了安香诗乃渡比卖的容貌

就连眼前的海水也全无了颜色

唐国人派了好多使者渡船前往秋津洲打听安香诗乃渡比卖的下落

但是因为唐国人将安香诗乃渡比卖举着铜镜的手记成了右手

派出的使者一个一个都没有回音

就这样一直等到七月份

唐国人决定自己撑船前去秋津洲

哪里都不去直接令船只停靠在了舞子之浜

这是个阴云密布的日子

唐国人在海边再一次看到了安香诗乃渡比卖

只见穿着灰蓝色衣裳的她

左手仍然拿着铜镜却暗淡无光

脸上也看不到笑容

和自己在唐国见到的寻常女子没有什么两样

唐国人回去了

但他仍然忘不了在舞子之浜见到的

手里举着闪闪铜镜的

有着让辉夜姬见了都自惭形秽的容貌的

安香诗乃渡比卖

他寻遍天下的海岸

不管是唐国的海岸还是秋津洲的海岸

再也见不到这样的容颜

With little else to do over the holiday, I wrote a small tale in the manner of a classical Japanese monogatari.

Long, long ago, in April of some distant year, a traveller from the Tang lands journeyed along the San’yōdō. When his travels brought him to Maiko-no-hama, from his ox carriage he saw a maiden standing upon the shore.

She wore a robe of sky blue, and in her left hand held aloft a gleaming bronze mirror. Facing the sunlight, she smiled at the traveller from the Tang lands.

Such was the maiden’s beauty that even Princess Kaguya of the Moon, upon seeing her, would surely have hidden her face behind a cypress fan in shame. What hope, then, had an ordinary mortal man?

The traveller was just leaning his head beyond the ox carriage, hoping for one more glimpse of her matchless face, when the maiden vanished without a trace.

For the rest of the journey, he dared not draw his head back into the carriage for even a moment, lest he miss the maiden’s reappearance. Yet all the way to Himeji, he never saw her again. He learned only that her name was Akashinotohime (Princess of the Akashi Strait).

After sailing home to the Tang lands, the traveller spent his days staring out to sea. How many times the sun rose and set beyond the horizon; how many times the tides advanced and withdrew along the shore. Still he could not forget the face of Akashinotohime, and even the sea before him seemed drained of colour.

The traveller sent many envoys across the water to Akitsushima to seek news of Akashinotohime. But he had remembered the hand that held her bronze mirror as the right, not the left, and one envoy after another departed without reply.

So he waited until the seventh month. Then the traveller resolved to sail to Akitsushima himself. He went nowhere else, but ordered his boat to put in directly at Maiko-no-hama.

It was a day heavy with cloud. Upon the shore, the traveller saw Akashinotohime once more. She wore a robe of grey-blue. The bronze mirror remained in her left hand, but no longer shone. There was no smile upon her face. She looked no different from any ordinary woman he had known in the Tang lands.

The traveller returned home. Yet he could never forget the Akashinotohime he had seen at Maiko-no-hama: the maiden who held aloft a glittering bronze mirror, whose beauty would have made even Princess Kaguya hide her face in shame— Akashinotohime.

He searched every shore beneath heaven, the coasts of the Tang lands and the coasts of Akitsushima alike, but never again did he behold such a face.

听说春光从不直接示人

她只是闪耀在万物的身上

让全世界作镜子照出她的面孔

They say spring never shows herself directly. She merely shines upon all things, making the whole world a mirror in which her face appears.

上海市 · 同济大学（嘉定校区）惟新馆 Shanghai · Weixin Building, Tongji University (Jiading Campus)

我说三月的上海怎么见着雪了呢

缓过神来一瞧

原来是灯下雨

I wondered how there could be snow in Shanghai in March. Then I looked again: it was only rain beneath the lamplight.

上海市 · 同济大学（嘉定校区） Shanghai · Tongji University (Jiading Campus)

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上海市 · 上海世博文化公园 Shanghai · Shanghai Expo Culture Park

我发现

我得了一种

看见什么好看东西就想摆在桌子上的毛病

I have discovered that I suffer from a condition: whenever I see something beautiful, I want it on my desk.

上海市 · 同济大学（嘉定校区）惟新馆 Shanghai · Weixin Building, Tongji University (Jiading Campus)

嘉定乡毋宁进城记 2026/03.02

犯了看到漂亮盘子就忍不住买的毛病

A Jiading country mouse goes to town · 2026/03.02 Once again afflicted by the inability to see a beautiful plate without buying it.

上海市 · 上生新所 Shanghai · Columbia Circle

今天（这个点来说应该算是昨天了罢）

全家在饭店团拜喝了三两白酒。

还被撺掇着上台唱了一首千昌夫的《北国の春》

整个一个活人微死的状态

あゝ

先不说在这个全是不怎么熟悉的亲戚的场合当中我的感觉多么微妙

拿起话筒的时候，想起千昌夫唱这首歌的时候，穿着皱皱巴巴的风衣，背着一袋風呂敷，一个去东京打拼的北国人的形象

不禁想起自己在外面，虽然可能穿得体面些，不也是这样一个人吗。

Today—though at this hour I suppose it was yesterday—the whole family gathered for a New Year dinner at a restaurant, and I drank about 150 millilitres of baijiu. Then they coaxed me onto the stage to sing Masao Sen’s “Kitaguni no Haru.” I was, in every sense, barely alive.

Ah— never mind how peculiar it felt to perform before a roomful of relatives I scarcely knew. The moment I picked up the microphone, I pictured Masao Sen singing the song in a rumpled trench coat, a furoshiki bundle over his shoulder: a man from the northern country who had gone to Tokyo to make his way.

And I could not help thinking of myself out in the wider world. My clothes may be a little smarter, but am I not just such a person too?

巴彦淖尔市 Bayannur

更高、更快、更强是奥林匹克的格言

也是手上的五环红绳对我的本命新年祝福

小红绳祝福我新年快乐呀～

🔵🟡⚫️🟢🔴

“Faster, Higher, Stronger” is the Olympic motto. It is also the blessing this five-ring red cord carries for me in my zodiac year. Little red cord, wish me a happy New Year— 🔵🟡⚫️🟢🔴

巴彦淖尔市 Bayannur

蒙古族人认为

火神能驱除邪恶赐予幸福🔥

所以在小年夜祭祀篝火

身边没有篝火的可以在我这里Cyber Respect🫡

Mongolian tradition holds that the God of Fire drives out evil and bestows happiness 🔥 So bonfires are honoured on Little New Year’s Eve. If there is no bonfire near you, you may pay your Cyber Respects here 🫡

巴彦淖尔市 · 东升庙阳山大佛 Bayannur · Dongshengmiao Yangshan Giant Buddha

骑着我的小单轮

Riding my little unicycle.

北京市 · 颐和园昆明湖冰场 Beijing · Kunming Lake Ice Rink, Summer Palace

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