MA DESIGN






EXPANDED PRACTICE    

33 
                        
Puyao（patti）Cui
@patti_cui


33 is conceived as both a philosophy and a lens through which to perceive the world — a point of departure for rethinking design as an act of inquiry rather than resolution. Emerging from a desire to question how knowledge, form, and meaning are constructed, 33 explores the tension between intuition and system, abstraction and embodiment, silence and expression.

As an evolving research practice, 33 seeks to map the invisible structures that shape perception, behaviour, and aesthetics — tracing where thought becomes material, and where material begins to think. It is both a process and a proposition: the beginning of a personal design methodology grounded in reflection, curiosity, and the shifting borders between philosophy and making.