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In-between is a practice-led communication design research project centred on the concept of liminality. It explores how repeated relocation, temporary dwelling, and movement through urban spaces shape experiences of identity, spatial perception, and belonging. Rooted in my experience of moving between countries and cities and living in temporary situations, the project focuses on “in-between states” between stability and change, arrival and departure, belonging and alienation. It asks: How can communication design translate these abstract experiences into visual forms that can be seen, read and felt, while bringing them into public discussion?

在中间 是一项以“阈限性”为核心视角的实践主导型传播设计研究，探讨持续迁移与城市流动如何影响身份认知、空间感知与归属经验。项目源于我长期在不同国家与城市间迁移和短期居住的经历，关注那些处于稳定与变化、抵达与离开、归属与疏离之间，难以被清晰描述的“中间状态”，并进一步追问：传播设计如何将这些抽象感受转化为可观看、可阅读、可感知并进入公共讨论的视觉形式？
Designer: Yumeng Tian
Date: 5/2025
Dimension: Various
Venue: Glasgow, UK






The research unfolds through two interconnected dimensions: personal experience and public space.  The first examines individual experiences of being in-between. Through visual poetry, material experimentation, and publication design, it translates uncertainty and shifting senses of belonging into visual language. 

研究从个人经验与公共空间两个相互关联的维度展开。第一部分聚焦个体层面的中间状态，通过视觉诗歌、材料实验与出版物设计，将不确定性与归属感的变化转译为视觉语言。




The second extends the research into urban space, using Glasgow Charing Cross Station as the main site of observation. Through field research, photography, on-site documentation, and text collection, it investigates how stations, passageways, boundaries, and everyday movement form changing transitional spaces, while examining relationships between spatial structures, identity, perception and belonging.

The project adopts practice-led research as its core methodology, treating design making as a process of observation, experimentation, reflection, and knowledge production. It has developed into cross-media outcomes including visual poetry, experimental publications, newspapers, posters, and installations. 
第二部分延伸至城市空间，以格拉斯哥查令十字火车站为观察现场，通过田野调研、摄影、现场记录与文本采集，研究车站、通道、边界及日常移动如何共同构成不断变化的过渡空间，并讨论空间结构与身份、感知和归属之间的边界关系。

项目以实践主导研究为核心方法，将设计实践视为观察、实验、反思与知识生成的过程，最终形成视觉诗歌、实验出版物、报纸、海报与装置的跨媒介成果。