About the Artist
Quanling Tan
I seek a balance between everyday urban life and overlooked traces of history. To me, space is not only a functional container, but a medium that carries time and memory. The Workers’ Village in Tiexi, Shenyang, is not a static relic—it remains inhabited and experienced. This “unfinished state of history” becomes the starting point of my work. Rather than focusing on form, I emphasize the relationship between people and space. Through the organization of movement, pause, and visual connections, the design transforms visiting into an experience close to daily life, allowing history to be perceived naturally. My approach tends toward restraint. The use of red acts as both material and emotional reference, rooted in industrial memory yet reinterpreted in a contemporary way. I aim to create a space between monumentality and everyday life—one that remains open, adaptable, and continuously inhabited. For me, design is not a reproduction of the past, but a way to keep memory present in contemporary life.
About the Artist
Quanling Tan
I seek a balance between everyday urban life and overlooked traces of history. To me, space is not only a functional container, but a medium that carries time and memory. The Workers’ Village in Tiexi, Shenyang, is not a static relic—it remains inhabited and experienced. This “unfinished state of history” becomes the starting point of my work. Rather than focusing on form, I emphasize the relationship between people and space. Through the organization of movement, pause, and visual connections, the design transforms visiting into an experience close to daily life, allowing history to be perceived naturally. My approach tends toward restraint. The use of red acts as both material and emotional reference, rooted in industrial memory yet reinterpreted in a contemporary way. I aim to create a space between monumentality and everyday life—one that remains open, adaptable, and continuously inhabited. For me, design is not a reproduction of the past, but a way to keep memory present in contemporary life.
About the Artist
Quanling Tan
I seek a balance between everyday urban life and overlooked traces of history. To me, space is not only a functional container, but a medium that carries time and memory. The Workers’ Village in Tiexi, Shenyang, is not a static relic—it remains inhabited and experienced. This “unfinished state of history” becomes the starting point of my work. Rather than focusing on form, I emphasize the relationship between people and space. Through the organization of movement, pause, and visual connections, the design transforms visiting into an experience close to daily life, allowing history to be perceived naturally. My approach tends toward restraint. The use of red acts as both material and emotional reference, rooted in industrial memory yet reinterpreted in a contemporary way. I aim to create a space between monumentality and everyday life—one that remains open, adaptable, and continuously inhabited. For me, design is not a reproduction of the past, but a way to keep memory present in contemporary life.