Yanqianfang Sun
About Me.
Hello, my name is Yanqianfang Sun, and I am a passionate user experience designer, service designer, and design consultant. With a strong desire to create meaningful experiences that address complex challenges, I have dedicated my career to the design industry in China, Canada and Italy. Currently, I am pursuing my MSc in Product Service System Design at Politecnico di Milano.
" Through embracing an inclusive and diversified design mindset, I've applied various design tools throughout the entire design process, utilizing my abilities to enhance experiences, support teams, and foster the future of companies around the fast-changing environment. "
Selected Projects
Transforming Milan through circular economy with a furniture-upcycle NPO.
Collaborated with Abfare. AbFare is an association aimed at activating strategies and initiatives to improve people's living conditions through the reuse and re-design of objects and furniture. The aim is to support waste reduction and to promote the principles of a circular economy, in particular, increasing knowledge and awareness on housing issues. The project is to support the distribution of recovered furniture and the activities of a diffused network of workshops for Abfare, with the aim of transforming the city.
Exploring public innovation and autonomy of citizens in public policy
La Scuola dei quartieri, “The School of the Neighborhoods”, a project funded by the European Union within the PON METRO program, is promoted by the Ministry of Economy and Politics, Economic Development and Labor Policy of Milan. An academic research about " How can
service design enable Polimi DESIS Lab who is the main stakeholder of the project get and fulfill the interplay role?" was conducted in order to explore the public innovation field. Further an academic paper about " Service Design Empowering Autonomy of Citizens in Public Policy " was created as an individual academic achievement.
Fighting towards an uncertain future of energy crisis in Italy.
Brease is an easy-breezy way of improving the energy efficiency of buildings. It is a product-service designed to revitalize buildings with a breathable green facade and ensure affordability for home renovation. Brease, which is made of ceramic modules and easily mounted on the wall with a metal structure, acts as a shading panel that prevents direct sunlight from entering the house and allows the refreshed cool air to enter through the balcony or windows thanks to the plants on it.
Exploring the influence of artificial wombs on childbearing in the future.
With the rapid development of technology and the discussion on the gradual improvement of applied ethics, can technical means such as artificial wombs liberate women from childbearing? NEST is a service platform based on an artificial womb that provides an immersive visual experience, heartbeat simulation, and transparent process tracking throughout the process.
Promoting sexual education for pre-school children in China.
STORYWORLD is a DIY storyboard that offers parents a more exciting way to teach their kids about sex education such as self-cognition and self-protection through telling them DIY stories. During the story, kids need to build the characters with correct body components and pick up cards with the right choices about sex education for the characters in the story, which helps them with their improvement on sex education. And parents could also share their stories and communicate with educators on the affiliated application.