Shupin Liu
Shupin Liu - Site-specific Theatre and Spatial Experience
Shupin Liu is a site-specific theatre researcher and a spatial experience artist.
Shupin Liu is an artist, designer and practice-lead researcher who practices spatial narrative skills to create site-specific experiences.
Her interest in the human-environment interaction and cognitive experience leads her to work as a researcher and creative director in the immersive experience industry. She also works on social engagement, brand event, and city branding projects. From her experience to collaborate with creative artists from different disciplines, she learnt to interpret the design process from different perspectives and how storytelling could enhance the value of the space. Her enthusiastic in travelling leads her to underline the endemic culture in her creative practice.
Her recent works focus on the architectural space’s mediating role towards the impact of social media on social behaviour and mental health, and the architectural space’s ability to meet the intrinsically motivated needs for solitude.
Her research interests are in the ways people interact with designed spatial environments, the embodiment of emotions in the architectural space, and the relationship between art, architecture and psychology and how this contributes to mental wellbeing.
Education
Current
Royal Holloway, University of London, London, UK
PhD in Drama and Theatre Studies
2018 - 2020
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, London, UK
Master of Arts in Narrative Environment
2016 - 2017
University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
International Exchange Program
Environmental Economics, Scandinavia Studies: Cultural and Aesthetic
2014 - 2018
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Design
Work
2021
2019
2015 - 2016
2014 - 2016
Natalie Zhao, Shanghai, China
Set Design Assistant
John Allsopp Studio, London, UK
Intern Experience Design
Lingyun Musical, Hangzhou, China
Lighting Design
Student Union of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Deputy Minister of Literature and Art
Seminar
2021
Urban Assemblage: The City as Architecture, Media, AI and Big Data
Organized by: University of Hertfordshire / AMPS
Publication
Liu, Shupin. “EVERYONE IS AN ISLAND: SPATIAL NARRATIVE AS AN ART PRACTICE IN COMBATING UNHEALTHY SOCIALISING BEHAVIOURS INFLUENCED BY SOCIAL MEDIA IN MODERN SOCIETY” In: S. Carta (ed.), AMPS Proceedings Series 25. Urban Assemblage, Virtual. 28 – 30 June (2021). pp.[123-133]