Zhipeng Duan
Design researcher-turned-anthropologist whose work explores how perception, affordances, and confrontation can transform experiences of powerlessness; discusses practice-based projects and workshops connecting design and ethnography.
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Mar 19, 2026 • 47min
Powerlessness: Can the Powerless Spark Change?
Zhipeng Duan, a design researcher-turned-anthropologist who links design and ethnography, explores how perception shapes power. He discusses redefining powerlessness as a blindness to possibilities. He explains confrontation as a practice to reattune perception, shares practice-based workshops like re-seeing nearby spaces, and tells stories of art and recording that shift relationships and create lasting change.
