Jiannan Shi
From a demolished wet market,
Shanghai's tucked-away queer spaces,
to algorithm-crafted digital cyberspaces
on social media,
Employing advanced quantitative, qualitative, ethnographic, participatory,
and community-engaged methods,
I unearth the hidden wisdom of everyday folks –
their "art of not being governed↗"
and how to co-create our public spaces.
I embarked on a year-long PEER Fellowship ,
and stationed in a rural high school with a non-governmental organization – doing social good through design thinking!
I made an idle classroom "public!" There,
I organized events on civic engagement, the SDGs,
localized community intervention strategies like the Living Library and Safe Zone training to rural China.
A big part of my work also involved fostering digital literacy. My media literacy education project has also got awarded for a Humanity in Action Fellowship.
Prior to my year in the field,
I wrote, filmed, and podcasted stories
that transcended boundaries of all kinds
- be they language, gender, class, nationality.
My words, podcast, and videos appeared
on SixthTone, PragueCast, among others.
My work was a continuous journey
towards envisioning and articulating a world
defined not by borders,
but by our shared humanity.
To me, food is a fascinating reflection of humanity –
it embodies the essence of freedom and diversity, much like each one of us.
I'm passionate about culinary experiments
as I blend ingredients from diverse cultures.
Recently, I tried to make some tangy Shandong-style pickled cucumber
with cuban "mojo" (citrus + garlic) marinade.
Stay tuned for Chef Nan's cosmopolitan recipe, coming soon.
I completed my education in three continents and four countries, with scholarship. I promise that I've learned a lot along the way, especially how to eat!!
I explore noodle eateries whenever I travel — savoring the culinary nuances that make these cosmopolitan carbohydrates-based thin strips distinct.
In my very first video editing internship, I tried to eat a lot of weird stuff in front of the camera.
––Get some fun from my work with RADII!
By the way, I made these illustration of noodles via DALL·E 3. But as you might have noticed, this model presented some unexpected bias on Asian cuisine...even though I've tried my best to prompt!
Try my GPT app here, a noodles illustrator: