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Yanki Lee

Professional Commitments

Director:
Founder, EXHIBIT Community Interest Company and Super Estates Foundation, since 2005

Conference Chair:

  • 12th biennial Participatory Design Conference (PDC) Roskilde, Denmark, 12-15 Aug, 2012

Reviewer:

  • International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR), Delft Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, 4th World Conference on Design Research - IASDR2011 31 Oct - 4 Nov 2011
  • Young and Old session, Shanghai Cumulus Conference, Tongji University College of Design and Innovation Shanghai 7-10 Sept 2010
  • Design Research Society international conference, Design & Complexity, Montreal, Canada 7-9 July 2010

Committee member:

  • Universal Design (UD2012) Conference, Oslo, Norway, May 2012
  • Participatory Design Conference 2008, Indiana University Bloomington USA Oct 2008
  • Participatory Design Conference 2010, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, Nov 2010

Workshop leader:

  • Ageing in Lillestrøm, May 2012, Oslo, Norway as part of the UD2012 conference programme
  • MaD Googs Lab, Hong Kong, May-July 2011
  • RSA's Design & Rehabilitation workshop, a three-day design workshop for people with spinal-cord injuries, 2-4 Nov 2010
  • Investigating our future selves family day, Serpentine Gallery, London, 6 Feb 2010

Adviser:

  • Inclusive Design Facilitation, Heartlands, Cornwell, UK 2009
  • Urban Idea Bakery adviser: British Council, London, March 2010

Royal College of Art:

  • RCA Fellow, 2012
  • International Development Group Ambassador 2011
  • Curator for Constant Stream: China travelling exhibitions 2008-2009
  • Research supervisor: PhD, Carmen Hijosa, Fashion and Textiles Research

External examiner:

  • Mphil, Engineering Design Centre, Cambridge University

Visiting scholar:

  • Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China ,2011
  • Hong Kong Design Institute, Hong Kong, China, 2010-2012
  • Kyushu University, User Science Institute, Japan, 2008

Committe member:

  • Participatory Design Conference 2008, Indiana University Bloomington USA Oct 2008
  • Participatory Design Conference 2010, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, Nov 2010