field-0

Field-0 trials situated, sensorial approaches to dissecting planetary interconnectedness, while grounding our work in communities. Through fieldwork, following drifting bodies—be they sand, water or migrant workers, the practice attunes to material flows, planetary scales, intergenerational time, and the many forms of life entangled in these processes. Field practice, for us, is relation-oriented: drawing out relations, entering into them with care, and driving change towards repair and reciprocity.

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 was awarded the Harvard GSD’s 2023 Wheelwright Prize for TRACING SAND, and received two commendations from the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) President’s Awards for Research in 2020 and 2018. 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, and Maggie’s Cancer Care Centre in Leeds, UK.

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

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