Bushwa’s Room is the archive of  Tzu-Yun Wei, a Taiwanese artist/designer based in Taipei. Tzu applies design as a strategic tactic to foster cross-cultural relations.


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Printing in progress: What Makes a Book a Book? 
 National Culture and Arts Foundation 

a reading-space project documents the learning process with bookists in New York and Taiwan.


 Key visual design
 Taipei Artbook Fair

"I recommend you to put that chair on your head to the side, to say no, on hold the 'progress,' trace these shadows like dancing in slow motion until the morning comes, sit, breath, are you ready for the progress?" (Photo Credit: Taipei Art Book Fair)

from drawing to space


 Space of footnotes*

A virtual reading space through research of Taiwanese queerness, speculating the possibilities for Taiwanese cultural activists, artists, and organizers. (2023)


 Asterisk as a Life Form 
A series of transdisciplinary projects, focusing on the formation of queerness within everyday body movements, kinship, and self-creation. (2023)



Life* 
A gaming model assembled with 5 elements: life-stage, emotions, challenge, instructions, figures. Players can simulate the possible challenge and dilemma in queers’ lives by arranging the figures. (2023)


 I AM: Coding My Thing
 Creative Coding Festival 

A workshop explores technology by collecting and reimagining their functions through the lens of four distinct actions: "Release," "Protect," "Contain," and "Move." 


What’s Your Dream workshop series
 Other Islands Book Fair 

A series of workshops designed for participants to explore their careers, life purposes, and selves through body movements, tangible objects, and drawing tools. (2023)

Dear Family
A game card designs for redefining a family.
Hidden Beauty: Sensory Walk in Wu Family Garden
Nan-tai Fu-Gong Organization 

Walk workshop encourages students to explore the Wu Family Garden area through 5 senses, and to facilitate empathy relation between city and body. (2018)
OUR SHAPES: self-awareness workshop
 Nan-tai Fu-Gong Organization

Through recreating the scenes and dining experiences from the fable, "Heaven and Hell," guiding students to engage in self-awareness and practice empathy, fostering an understanding of the value of mutual aid. (2018)

Key visual design for Fei Liu’s Our Good Bones (2024)

A game of dominoes reimagined as a collective effort to create a community bank.

Fruit Portrait 

A campaign design for Farm in campus of Pratt, which started with a public interview, asking, “what kind of fruit are you?”

i <3 drawing

100 ways: Drawing ↔︎ Complex Personhood
I bring my notepad whereever I go. In this project, I explored how daily drawings intervene with my interpretation toward events, body, and complex personhood. (2023)

draw for better living

Scarf Design | ALONE Pop-up (2019)
WFH t-shirt design | TAIPEI ART BOOK FAIR x TOKYO CULTUART by BEAMS (2021)
Under the pandemic, remote working and meeting have become norms for everyone and with the rising awareness of mental health and relationship issues, the music plays an important role for people to release pressure and anxiety. The series of illustrations documented the WFH live in Taiwan in 2021.

"Night Bus TW Terminal is 0 Meter Ahead" Group Exhibition




SPONACT 


Notebook Zine 
Notebook series are zines I’ve been making since 2019. I love making zines. (2020)

SHADE Research 
An embodiment-based research focusing between shadow, time and space. (2023)



All sounds is queer 
A machine-trained sound map composed by sounds I collected across nations, internet spaces and actual places (2023).