2026 | Student

MUSE Design Awards Silver Winner

The World After Humans: Four Non-Human Viewpoints

Entrant

Zhejiang Wanli University

Category

Conceptual Design - Communication

Client's Name

Wu Yihan

Country / Region

China

This project is a speculative experiential design exploration that investigates post-anthropocentric perception through four non-human viewpoints: rock, cloud, seaweed, and fungi. By decentering the human subject, it asks how matter itself might register duration, atmosphere, pressure, memory, and ecological relation. Integrating printmaking, frottage, photography, and editorial image construction, the project develops a research-based visual framework informed by ecological thought and non-human agency. It does not represent nature as scenery; instead, it stages an alternative perceptual model in which non-human entities operate as sensing bodies and epistemic agents. The final outcome is an immersive visual system that reframes the relationship between observer, environment, and material existence.

Credits

Zhejiang Wanli University
Wu Yihan
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