Lucy Sun

Flora Renaiss, 2023

Kraft brown paper & White card paper, dried flower (sample as flower tea)

Designed for sharing cultural representation, 'Flora Renaiss' provides an innovative multi-sensory experience of culture. Through interactive illustration and paper engineering, it immerses the audience into the nuance and novelty of 12 monthly flower teas, integral to the Chinese Flower Festival. It is an aspiration, to get closer to home, through an affinity with Chinese culture.

Lucy Sun, an emerging graphics and experience designer, moved from China 5 years ago. Living within a multicultural society has driven her passion to dive deeper into her home culture and devote her design practice to sharing culture. Lucy consistently experiments with how to utilize the ‘uncertainty’ of the imagination to generate interesting views with compelling contrast through unexpected interactive presentations.

The craft experience visualizes the culture representation. By hiding the middle part within layers of revelation and inviting the audience to get involved in a journey that unfolds, Flora Renaiss draws on imagination, and reveals a gradual understanding of culture (鱼山饭宽, 2019).