Una Zhang
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A custom-built, human-scale interactive foosball experience with original gameplay mechanics and rules, designed for MetroPlus Health and NYCFC at the FIFA World Cup Fan Zone at Citi Field.
Highlight:
Experiential Marketing
Physical-build,
Participatory Art,
Experience Design,
Exhibition Design
More coming soon...
Alien Archive
2024 - Present
A research-driven material archive translating historical cookbook research and migration narratives into preserved dumpling artifacts, zines, and printed matter exploring adaptation, memory, and cultural transmission.
Highlight:
Research,
Physical-build,
Participatory Art,
Experience Design,
Exhibition Design
Research-driven, site-specific communal cooking sessions that transform non-kitchen spaces into temporary environments for adaptation, inviting participants to negotiate ingredients, tools, and social conditions through collective dumpling-making.
Highlight:
Research,
Physical-build,
Participatory Art,
Experience Design,
Exhibition Design
A multisensory participatory event at the Whitney Museum exploring alternative worlds and futures for the sites through scenario cards, sensory prompts, and collective storytelling.
Highlight:
Scent Art,
Experience Design,
Participatory Art
Three Feasts
Oct 2025
Overlooked dumpling histories reimagined through archival research and AI-generated period imagery in a quasi-museum setting, exploring how food, memory, and power shape cultural narratives.
Highlight:
Mixed Medium,
Archival Research,
AI-assisted
 
 
An end-to-end client project combining physical miniature, wall relief, and an augmented reality experience to help museum visitors explore Alice Austen’s darkroom setup and process, otherwise inaccessible on the closed-off second floor.
Highlight:
Client Work,
Reseach,
Experience Design,
Exhibition Design,
Augmented Reality,
Physical-build
Cookie Lab
2023 - Present
A participatory sensory station that uses cookies to explore the interplay between taste and smell and between sensory experience and perception.
Highlight:
Research,
Physical-build,
Sensory Design,
Experience Design,
Exhibition Design
A research-based, multi-stage interactive installation that recreates the Antikythera Mechanism (~100 BCE) in a personal, playful, and informative way.
Highlight:
Research,
Physical-build,
Interaction Design,
Digital Fabrication,
Augmented Reality,
Exhibition Design
Scents of Us
Oct 2023 - March 2024
2024 NYC Media Lab X Chanel Virtual  Synesthesia Challenge Winner
A multi-sensory experience where scents are rendered visible and audible.
Highlight:
Physical-build,
Multisensory Design,
Exhibition Design