CANYU CHEN, DRK (Design Research Kit)_Materialising Conversations, JULY 26 — SEP 26
Materialising Conversations_Design  Research Kit_CANYU_CHEN




“REST HAS TO BE EARN?”



About: DRK explores a familiar question: when did rest become something to be earned? Developed as a participatory research kit, the project looks at how productivity expectations become personal rules about when it is acceptable to stop. Six participants from design, education and business backgrounds were invited to revisit a moment when they felt tired but kept going. Through writing, mapping and rearranging visual elements, they traced a personal “Rest Path”, connecting external pressures with inner voices and the conditions they placed on rest.The outcome is a three-part printed kit comprising a foldable mapping sheet, a visual guide and a worksheet for rebuilding the path. A shared language of shapes and connecting lines gives participants a way to describe pressures that can be difficult to put into words.

Across the six responses, rest was rarely shaped by a single influence. Personal expectations, ideas of “doing enough” and the desire to prove oneself emerged as recurring themes. By inviting participants to reconstruct their paths, the kit opened a conversation about which pressures they wished to loosen and how rest might happen on different terms.
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Selected Projects;

01)  REST PENDING
02) CHISEL 41X
03) DRK
04) LOOPCELL
05) CRIMSONY
06) T/D/F 
07) INVISIBLE WATER

Communication Designer,
Based in Melbourne & Zhengzhou

Canyu Chen {Hello!}


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I’m a designer based in Mount Waverley on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country, working across visual identity, typography, and motion graphics. 


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