JIAWEN ZHU ｜朱嘉汶
JIAWEN ZHU (Carmen) is a London-based designer with a multi-disciplinary practice combing interaction design, storytelling and socially engaged art. With a background in Interaction Design Arts, she creates participatory experiences that foster emotional connection and public engagement. She is particularly interested in explore how people navigate, interpret, and connect within their everyday environments. Blending creative design, co-creation and sensory experience, her work highlights everyday relationships while addressing broader themes of care, connection, belonging and the role of design in daily life.
Jiawen ZHU
330 × 150 × 150mm (×3)/ Variable Size
Wood board
2025
Track Me Here is an experimental art piece that connects familiar routines with unfamiliar mode of exploration. It documents patterns shaped by space, time, and movement through dérive-style walking in the city, presented in individual box sets. Beginning from a personal disconnection with traditional maps, the work investigates how walking influences our perception of space.
Through a series of 1000m walks from familiar locations, starting from the South, East, North, and West, it reveals how time measures our psychological connection to place more than physical distance. Through this process, the artwork creatively remaps everyday routines and re-connects with the city through movement, memory and material form.