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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]

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