Ziyue Shang 商子岳

I’m an ethnographer and performance artist currently pursuing a Master in Design Studies in Publics at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Before that, I graduated from University College London (UCL) with first-class honours in Global Humanitarian Studies.

My research interests lie at the intersection of multimodal anthropology, body/embodiment, queer/gender politics, and the socialist state. My current work explores the formation of queer subjectivities in relation to socialist moral ideology, asking how state-produced moral values are embodied, negotiated, and unsettled in everyday life. I am exploring ways of responding to this question through ethnographic research on performance art (行为艺术 xingwei yishu) and live art (现场艺术 xianchang yishu) communities, while also attending to broader forms of queer public culture, including ballroom, dance, digital shorts, and other vernacular media and bodily practices.

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Performance Art 行为&现场
  1. Everything is FINE!
  2. Solidarity is the POWER 团结就是力量
  3. Lipstick
  4. Hand in Hand, At Play
  5. Underground Park Mushroom Hop
  6. Jumping the Long Rope
  7. Same but Difference (Spring Equinox)
  8. Towards Dirt
  9. Go Round and Round
  10. Radio Calisthenics

Voice from the Community 社区&声音
  1. ‘Praising‘ Colonialism
  2. Qingdao Zhongshan Road
  3. Hague Mothers
  4. Lines That Almost Meet
  5. Vagina Monologue Series (in-progress)

Creative Writing 写作
  1. Autoethnography (in-progress)

Public Engagement & Academic Conference 展览&会议&其他
  1. Rebuilding: Sites/Sights of East Asia: 31th Columbia GradCon
  2. EXPERIMENT: Rethinking Representation, Methods, & Knowledge American Ethnological Society (AES) Spring Conference
  3. DIRT: NSSR Anthropology Graduate Student Conference
  4. IMPACT: Durham Anthropology Graduate Student Conference

Zhongshan Road



City Regeneration
Zhongshan Road Public Participation

Public Engagement Art Exhibition  
Urban renewal is a critical theme ni urban development, yet the historic preservation of Qingdao's Zhongshan Road district seems to clash with commercial tourism growth, leading to resident dissatisfaction and relocation.

To study residents' attitudes toward the latest urban renewal efforts and to design a district that aligns more closely with their vision, we set up a public participation booth on Zhongshan Road during my internship at Qingdao Project. This booth invited both local residents and tourists to share memories and suggestions for the future of Zhongshan Road. We then used NLP and sentiment analysis to compare residents' emotions and opinions collected via social media with the in-person contributions gathered through stickers at the booth. Insights from this analysis informed the design of a participatory urban renewal guideline, increasing citizen engagement ni Qingdao's redevelopment. This approach shifted public involvement from passive notification to active consultation and introduced a feedback mechanism for continual input from the community.


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