Mind × Body: Catalyst Phenomenon Archive

The exhibition takes its premise from Juhani Pallasmaa's The Thinking Hand: the hand is not an instrument of execution but an extension of thought, and in touching, shaping and building, it is simultaneously thinking. Mind and body are not opposing poles but mutually catalytic forces, generating what neither could produce alone. What occurs when they meet is closer to a chemical reaction than to addition. The pressure of fingers on clay preserves the residue of thinking. An unbuilt architectural line holds an imagination of how a body might inhabit space. A knitted sample records a decision made at the scale of a single stitch. A wearable device dissolves the boundary between skin and interface. Together, the works form a living archive rather than a static display: a record of how the mind–body relationship is being negotiated, strained, and reinvented now. They are arranged to create dialogue across disciplines, placing a woodcut in conversation with a research document, a textile alongside a virtual environment. Exhibiting practitioners: Chang He, Aveline Thomas, Lingjun Zhou, Mansi Kothari — CITY IN REVERIE: A Somatic Archive of Urban Objects and Spatial Memory Chao Liu — Where Our Attention Goes Chunling Wu — Trace of Being Digital Craft in Architecture (as a research cluster at Oxford Brookes University) Elif Gamze DEDELER — irregular, singular, irreplaceable Francis Zhang — Love & Decay Hanbing Wang, Lie Zhang, Chunling Wu, Xiwen Liu, Xiang Li, Xianqi Wang, Yingying Liu, Shiru Du, Mingjie Zhou, Xizi Liu — Whispers of the Sacred Grotto Jiayu Gao — Vaulture Ketong Xing — Existentialism Trace Lei Zhang, Weiming Zhang — Art Education Linrui (Yaning) Xiong — Architectural Healing Lucille Huang — Infinity Us Miaoting Feng, Ruiyi Jiang, Xiaohan Shi, Siyan Yu, Baolin Yin, Chen Wang — Streaming Ming Chen, Hedi Mao — RE: FERMENTATION Mingming Zhao — Wearing Affect: A Bio responsive Brooch for Emotional Visibility and Social Negotiation Minming Wei — Style Syntax: AI × Emotion Qian Zhang — Let's dance with music Rachel Dong — What Remains Beyond Information Rita Tang — Forgotten Rooms Ru Jia — Bread & Proust effect Ruiyi Jiang, Yi Shi — Intelligent Injury Recovery Sainan Zuo — Infinite Corridor: The Recursive Dance of the Source Code Shang Dai, Qianyi He, Hongzhu Zhou (as members of the artist collective ‘Semiome’) — The Lost Roasted Lambkin Siliang Wang — Masked Lesion Xi Feng, Chi Hang Paul Lo, Zhongkui Hu — Between Bodies: Designing the Threshold Between Human, Animal and City Xi Feng, Shuyu Wu — DualLife: Design of an Urban Low-Altitude Severe Emergency Multimodal Collaborative Transport System Xiangyi Kong, Ruixi Yang, Wenfang Wang — With U - A multi-form, multi-foldable electric vehicle design for younger elderly people based on the theory of active aging Xinwei (Vicky) Guo (as lead designer); Zeming Zhang, Shida Wang, Zhiyuan Song (as team members) — The Second Shell Xiuli Xie, Hua Chen — Sensory Equipoise: Lingnan Herbal Incense Yiting Chu — Mirror Flower (Mirror Flower I: Blade, Mirror Flower II: Mirror Stage, Mirror Flower III: Flower in a Mirror, Moon on the Water) Yixuan Wang, Nuo Cheng, Yaokun Liu, Teng Fei, Hongyuan Mei — NO COMMON DAY Yue (Yola) Wu — BODYWISE Yuehong Zhou — Adaptive Behavior in Digital Nomads: An Interactive Spatial Structure Study Using Machine Learning Yunge Tong — Taste Before Emotion: A Wearable Textile Interface for Embodied Emotional Awareness Yunwen Zhu — Flux Yuyang (Baron) Shen — REMNANTS Zun Wang — Simulated Plant Those taking part are at every career stage and based in the UK, mainland China, the United States, Turkey and beyond. Their work spans printmaking and drawing, woven and knitted textiles, wearable devices, aromatic objects, architectural and spatial research, publication and graphic design, moving image and generative sound, and AR, VR and XR installation, alongside document research.