Iris Yiqun Luo (羅軼群) is an interdisciplinary researcher, curator, and educator from China. She explores the intersection of ontological design and epistemic justice with material culture, spirituality, technology, and ancestral memories. From digital archiving to participatory action research, her work focuses on knowledge production through intra-action among pluriversal worldviews and challenges the bias of cognition. Using storytelling and visual/multi-sensory narratives as tools, her goal is to imagine and nurture alternative pedagogies that prioritize land/water-based agency by bringing trans-local collaboration into the interconnected global and web of life.

In 2024, Iris curates an exhibition titled "The Making of Barkcloth: Place, Gender, and Trans-Local Community," with the support of the Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection's Charlotte A. Jirousek Fellowship and the Summer Graduate Fellowship in Digital Humanities, to work on the medium of barkcloth, which traces the migration of Austroniean-speaking ancestors from Maritime Southeast Asia to Oceania, looking at the material through both cultural and scientific lenses. As part of this curatorial practice, she prototyped a digital humanities project of a textile database, "Visually the Barkcloth", to support the collective learning experience of historical barkcloth by bringing in the voices of multiple local communities.