As a bio-inspired designer and interdisciplinary researcher, Shontelle Xintong Cai is currently based in Toronto and London. Her works explore the intersections of design, art, science and technology. She experiments with information visualization, experience system and multimodal interaction with audiovisual communication technologies, programmable materials, ‘moist media’ and life science data. Her art and design practices are influenced by her academic background related to visual communication, digital media studies and plant physiology. She considers Design as Discussion: a design protocol centring around the non-human and ecological approach by sensory narratives and fictional objects. She critically and parametrically engages in designing the innovative dialogues between complex scientific knowledge and cross-sensory experience. To practice the design methodologies and transmedia storytelling via scientific systems and computation, she opens the discussions about the inherent values of more-than-human participatory research, technoscientific interventions, synthetic bio-design, political ecology and objecthood to the potential audience. She has shared her creative practices and design paradigm through several workshops, symposiums and exhibitions in China, Canada, Franc and the United Kingdom.
Education:
OCAD University-BDes Graphic Design,With Completion of a Minor in Digital & Media Studies (2016-2020)
Royal College of Art- MA Information Experience Design, with distinction of degree dissertation (2020-2022)
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Machine Learning in Visualization and Sonification; Morphology; Biotextile
Mental Health Tracking | Assistant | Pill Taking in Public / 2019
According to World Health Organization, there are more than 322 million people of all ages
suffer from depression in global. As one of the common mental disorder, depression brings additional challenges to people’s daily life. Undoubtfully, mental health issues needs self-regulation and psychiatric consultation. However, the importance of anti-depressant is highly minimized both in patients and general public. Mental health is pravite, thus depression patient have difficulty to let others know their tough situations.
This project intends to help depression patients to release stress and shame when taking
anti-depressants not only in private but in public realm. The design of editable pill box for
anti-depressants and app for assisting the medicine experience and mental health treatment are considered. The target users are mainly but not limited to 15-30 age groups in global.
