Yanki Lee

Yanki Lee is a Research Fellow and programme leader of Design for our Future Selves, the inclusive design awards scheme for RCA students.

Yanki studied Interior Design at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, graduating in 1996, and Architecture and Interiors at the Royal College of Art, graduating in 2000. With international architectural design experience and design awards, Yanki’s design has focused on design and locality, cultural development and community architecture.

Yanki was a Helen Hamlyn Research Associate, studying the future of live-work buildings in collaboration with the Peabody Trust 2000 to 2001. She returned to the Centre for the academic year 2003-4 as a Visiting Doctoral Fellow from the School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University where she was awarded a research studentship for her doctoral research.

Developed from her doctoral design research thesis, entitled Design Participation Tactics (2006), Yanki is working closely with the HHRC team, RCA design communities and external community associations to develop different inclusive design methodologies and exemplar case studies. The research focuses on different forms of people-centred design, such as participatory design and inclusive design in different cultures and design communities.