Xinru Liu
Xinru Liu is the founder and the principle designer of Rural Urban Lab. She is a highly interdisciplinary designer and researchers with skills ranging from spatial design, graphic design, web design, digi
tal design, creative coding, and digital installation. Her research focuses on the relationship between production and space, in which she is studying the impact of technology in both the rural and the urban space. She is interestede in exploring the hybridized rural/urban, and digital/physical space.
Xinru honed her craft at award-winning boutique architecture firms in New York and Beijing. She received her Master of Design Studies from Harvard Graduate School of Design and her Bachelors of Architecture and Fine Art from Rhode Island School of Design. Throughout her academic career and beyond, she maintains a rigorous volunteer schedule for various causes such as housing and food access.
She currently teaches freshman architecture students at Boston Architectural College on zoom. She based in Auburn, CA, where she is working on a larger scholarly project analyzing the hybridization of rural and urban environments along the i-80 corridor.
tal design, creative coding, and digital installation. Her research focuses on the relationship between production and space, in which she is studying the impact of technology in both the rural and the urban space. She is interestede in exploring the hybridized rural/urban, and digital/physical space.
Xinru honed her craft at award-winning boutique architecture firms in New York and Beijing. She received her Master of Design Studies from Harvard Graduate School of Design and her Bachelors of Architecture and Fine Art from Rhode Island School of Design. Throughout her academic career and beyond, she maintains a rigorous volunteer schedule for various causes such as housing and food access.
She currently teaches freshman architecture students at Boston Architectural College on zoom. She based in Auburn, CA, where she is working on a larger scholarly project analyzing the hybridization of rural and urban environments along the i-80 corridor.
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