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Linxi Liu

MA 2024
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I’m Linxi, as a Service Design Master’s student at the Royal College of Art.

I graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts with a Bachelor’s Degree in Innovation Design. Through observing life scenes and social phenomena, I explore the current changes through innovative and forward-looking design tools in design contexts, which was the goal of my undergraduate studies and research.

Traditional and existing design strategies applied to the current diversified social problems often fail to reach the cores of the problems while solving them because social problems and human needs are a mapping of contradictions between ideologies; it isn’t easy to deal with the root causes with a single design tool. Therefore, during the Service Design study in RCA, my practice is not a traditional implemented service design, but it tries to design more open-source and flexible tools or approaches. Asking questions about society and the environment in a design context to make people reflect and stimulate their subjective initiative to engage in a guided transformation of problems.

Final Project

Our project builds on the 2030 context. As there may be a mismatch between peak renewable energy generation and peak electricity consumption, this can lead to renewable electricity being wasted when the grid capacity is full. We envisage utilising and developing 'Vehicle-to-Grid' (V2G) technology, incorporating the energy storage attributes of electric vehicles, using their batteries to capture excess renewable energy and sell it back to the grid at peak times, providing dynamic, environmentally friendly and economical power for electric vehicles.

WIP project 2022

FINAL PROJECT PROPOSAL