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HENRY DING

 
fish lover – goodreads fanatic – eating hobbyist – wikipedia explorer – aspiring nation builder – 

A student at the Rhode Island School of Design pursuing a dual Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) and Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) with concentrations in Literary Arts & Nature-Culture-Sustainability Studies.

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︎︎︎︎ Architecture
Fall 2023
Scaffold Housing
Pushing agency and temporality in housing.
Summer 2023
The Queer Home
Archiving queer spaces and life in Toronto.
Fall 2022
Wrapping Classroom
An outdoor classroom built for movement.
Fall 2022
Architectural Projections
An exploration of form in as many ways as possible.
Continuous
Model Studies Archive Materiality & ideation.

︎︎︎︎ Play
Winter 2023
Archiving Queer Spaces
Contextualizing displacement and queerness
Fall 2021
Little Theater
Papermaking, lasercutting, and light.
Fall 2021
Ryan In Good Fortune Supermarket
Addressing queerness in the Asian diaspora.
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︎︎︎︎ Publishing
Spring 2024
The Queer Home
volume-1 (v.1)
Fall 2021

Under The Sea
Visions Magazine

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︎ Friends

Some beautiful friends and collaborators that should immediately be checked out:
Ryan Yan, Nicole Nedeff, Tian Pei, Sharon Lee, Jessica Song, Matteo Mastrangelo, Maithili Chaturvedi, Alex Liu, Ram Charan, Jessica Ruan, Clementine Kim, Yucheng Che, Katherine Fu, Jesse Hogan, Ryan Peng, Julia Ambros, Richard Shi, Izzy Choi

Archiving Queer Spaces

 




Winter 2023
 Professor Lara Kim & Nahyun Kim
Skills
Research & Installation Projection/Videography 
Collaborators
Ryan Yan



This project explores the phenomenon of migration and displacement within queer immigrant communities. Using interview transcripts from students at RISD, this project culminated in an archival video installation. 3D scans of our interviewees are projection mapped onto plastic sheets and mirrors on an opposing wall. During the 3D scanning process, as physical surfaces turn into computational data, we interrogate the transformation of our bodies into digital assets. This action parallels the migration of queer communities onto the internet, an intangible space immune to physical displacement, but one rife with new dangers and hierarchies.


On the mirrors are laser-cut text from each student speaking on their experiences of queerness and migration. Along with the mirrors, images of each student's "homes" are projected in a gallery, grid-like formation to illustrate ideas of collectivism and communal identity. When the projection of the 3D scan animation is reflected off the mirror plexiglass, the resulting form is distorted and abstracted into web-like structures. We ask how patterns of human migration have fragmented the queer identity and how we may push technology and the archive as a means to better understand our rapidly evolving communities.