Graduates
Shiyu
Chen
She/Her/Hers
Academic Program
MS in Spatial Experience Design - 2 Yr Path
Specializations
spatial experience design rooted in memory, ritual, and ecology.

Projects

About

Creating spaces where life and death quietly meet.

I am a designer interested in how space carries meaning—especially in moments of beginnings, loss, and remembrance. My work often explores the intersection of architecture, landscape, and ritual, with a focus on death, land, and our connections across place.

My thesis project, Flowers and Bones, envisions a floating cemetery in the chinampas of Xochimilco. It is not merely a burial site, but a living landscape—a slow regenerative system composed of human composting, gardens, and ceremonial paths. It is a space of return: to nature, to the earth, and to tradition.