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Field-0 trials a grounded, sensorial approach to dissecting the planetary interconnectedness towards alternative common sense. Through fieldwork, following drifting bodies—be they sand, water or migrant workers, the practice seeks to attune our senses to material flows, planetary scales, intergenerational time and all the life entangled in these processes.

Initiated by Jingru (Cyan) Cheng and Chen Zhan, field-0 operates at the intersection of architecture, anthropology, art and filmmaking. Their recent solo exhibitions include HOW MUCH WATTAGE IS ONE HANDBREADTH OF WATER at Storefront for Art and Architecture (New York, 2025) and RIPPLE RIPPLE RIPPLING at the Architectural Association (London, 2024). Their film work received the Architecture Short Film Award at the Milano Design Film Festival (2024) and the Best Short Film at the Venice Architecture Film Festival (2023).

Cyan is Harvard GSD’s 2023 Wheelwright Prize recipient for TRACING SAND. Her work has been exhibited as part of Critical Zones at ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany (2020–22), Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism (2019) and Venice Architecture Biennale (2018), among others. She currently teaches at the Royal College of Art in London.

Chen is an artist, independent filmmaker, anthropologist and UK-registered architect. She previously worked at Heatherwick Studio in London on high-profile international projects, including the Changi Airport Terminal 5 in Singapore, Google Gradient Canopy Headquarters in California, US, and Maggie’s Cancer Care Centre in Leeds, UK.

They are CCA-Mellon fellows at the Canadian Centre for Architecture.

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