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You can call me Meijia, Maggie, Magi, Mega, Lou...
Enjoying all the nicknames my friends give me :P



PROFILE

Meijia Maggie Lou is an artist and researcher whose practice unfolds through walking, observing, and poetic assembling within London’s urban textures. Her work explores how brick, boundary, and rhythm shape experiences of distance, belonging, and spatial memory.

Drawing on architectural theory, migration studies, and affective spatiality, she investigates how materials—especially brick and concrete—anchor both visual and emotional attachment. Working across critical spatial practice and interactive media, her projects create quiet systems of sensing, where disorientation becomes a form of understanding. Through moving image, games, and installations, she maps intimate cartographies shaped by texture and memory.

(Ignore it, I just enjoy what I’m doing~)


CONTACT
Instagram: maggieee_lou (Let’s follow each other!)
Website: https://meijialou.cargo.site/edit/S1765060396
Email: mlouaa@connect.ust.hk 



PROJECTS





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1. Dear London Brick - Graduation Project





2. OVER-LOOK  


Photography | Typology | Book Design
Wenzhou, 2022

This project explores the uneasy entanglement of humans and plants under regimes of commodification and aesthetic control. Observed in urban markets, plants are trimmed, packaged, or discarded—reduced to symbols of cuteness, productivity, or curated lifestyle.

Through photography and editorial design, the work captures these silent negotiations. Each image marks a moment of care, manipulation, or quiet resistance—revealing how vegetal life is shaped to fit human desire. Rooted in the idea of plant dignity, the project asks: when beauty overrides respect, can design still nurture empathy across species?


3. Twinkle Again  


Media Art | AR Design | Visual Culture
Hong Kong, 2023
This project began with a viral rumour: a false report that all neon signs in Hong Kong were to be dismantled. Though untrue, the collective anxiety it sparked revealed a fading icon’s lingering glow in the city’s cultural psyche.

By tracing the decline of neon—from its luminous presence to its quiet disappearance—the project reflects on urban erasure, policy neglect, and the fragility of cultural symbols. Through AR reanimation, it offers a quiet act of resistance: letting neon flicker again, not as nostalgia, but as living memory.



4. Blue's Death, Blue's Alive  


Visual Narrative | Personal Memory | Book Design
Hang Zhou, 2023
This project reflects on the sudden loss of Blue, a beloved bird, and the intimate rituals of mourning that followed. 

Drawing from the idea of the “three deaths” in Sum, it becomes a quiet act of farewell—where memory resists forgetting, and design becomes a gentle form of care. Through storytelling, it softens grief and honours presence beyond absence.



5. Chewing Boom  


Design for Health | Cultural Insight | Product System Hong Kong, 2023This project began with quiet observations of campus life—where alcohol flows freely, but knowledge does not. Amid endless choices and low awareness, casual drinking often slips into dependence.

Rooted in Confucian ideas of ritual and restraint, the project reimagines drinking as an intentional act. Through alcohol-infused candies with precise content, it offers a mindful alternative—inviting awareness over excess, and proposing a cultural recalibration of youthful indulgence.



6. ONYX - AI Coach Platform (Collaboration)  

UI/UX Design | Logo Design
Hong Kong, 2023
ONYX is an interactive training system that enhances squash practice with AI coaching and responsive tech. Combining smart ball launchers, interactive lights, and real-time analytics, it offers an engaging and scalable training experience.




7. Degis - Web3.0 Platform (Collaboration)  


Illustration | UI/UX Design 
Hong Kong, 2021
Degis is a decentralized insurance platform built on blockchain technology, aiming to provide a comprehensive and transparent ecosystem for managing and trading risk. Originally developed on the Avalanche blockchain, Degis seeks to redefine traditional insurance by leveraging smart contracts, decentralized governance, and real-time data feeds.



8. Home Kong  

8. Home Kong - Photography Collection






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