Iris Y. Luo
Iris Y. Luo
Ph.D. Student
Human Centered Design

Biography

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. Her current research focuses on plant–human intra-action and cognitive meaning-making processes at the threshold between the physical and metaphysical worlds. Using storytelling and visual/multi-sensory narratives as tools, her goal is to imagine and nurture alternative pedagogies that prioritize land/water-based agency and honor diverse bodies of knowledge - fostering trans-local collaboration within the interconnected global and web of life. Firmeza.

In 2024, Iris curated 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.

 

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