Mengnan Gao

Practice

Long-Term Practice

Future Living Traditions

Researching how Chinese traditional crafts can move from being protected cultural heritage into living cultural systems — ones that keep growing, can be experienced through the body, remade through contemporary materials, and carried into international contexts.

Core Question

How can Chinese traditional crafts become living, evolving contemporary cultural systems — rather than static objects of preservation?

Career Narrative

Material Origins → Narrative Systems → Future Living Traditions. Body → Object → Brand → Space → Experience → Cultural System.

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Methods & Fields of Enquiry

This section will set out how material origins connect to cultural systems in practice — not yet written.