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Designing for Wellbeing: Creative Practices in Real-life Contexts

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Event date
Friday 14 November 2025, 11am to 11.50am
Location
In-person and online
LMB/002, Law and Sociology Building, Campus East, University of York (Map)
Admission
Free admission

Event details

In this talk, Zheyuan will share insights from his design and research practice, which integrates design thinking, design processes, and practical skills. He will discuss how design/art can serve as a medium for reflection and wellbeing, fostering human connection and positive experiences. Another aspect of the talk will be ways to collect meaningful user feedback, the challenges of incorporating that feedback and response into the creative process, and how to balance those insights with creative intuition and conceptual direction.

About the speaker

Zheyuan Zhang

Zheyuan Zhang, born in Lanzhou, Gansu province, China, is a digital artist focusing on technology, wellbeing, and human emotions. He is also a PhD candidate in Design Engineering at Imperial College London. He graduated from Tongji University in 2017 and got his postgraduate degree in Innovation Design Engineering (IDE) at the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London in 2019.

Zheyuan’s current research and creative focus is on human wellbeing, mental health, participatory design, cross-cultural design and human-computer interaction. His PhD thesis is on designing an embodied digital interaction for the wellbeing of healthcare professionals.
Zheyuan is also the co-founder of Studio Inneract, a London-based studio that explores the combination of psychological theories, technology, and art. In 2025, Studio Inneract launched its latest work, Flow, as a permanent feature in the West Middlesex University Hospital (London). It is an interactive and responsive artwork that transforms the hospital entrance into an aesthetic and artistic space, reacting to human and environmental inputs.
Zheyuan’s works were also exhibited at the Dutch Design Week (2019-2022 and 2024), Saatchi Gallery (London, 2022), West Bund Art Center (Shanghai, 2021), and Tank Shanghai Art Center (Shanghai, 2021).

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