Snailor

Yue Zhang

Snailor is a playful walking experience that helps international students to build place attachment to New York City. It consists of a free digital application, and a physical paper accessory which can be downloaded and made by players themselves.

By turning a multiple-function mobile phone into a single-function investigation tool, the player can explore the urban environment as a real adventurer into unknown places. Inspired by the Situationist movement, random encounters make a solitary journey fun. By the end, the player will generate a psychogeography map. Snailor provides opportunities and motivation for new international students to become autonomous, and get more involved in the city.


About
Yue Zhang is an Interaction Designer and Creative Technologist based in New York/ Beijing. Her work explores combining various materials and emerging technology to invent unique objects and experiences, and how they form and change people’s behavior, feeling and mind in daily life. Meanwhile, she focuses on using playful and positive design to create social values, including recycling, biodiversity, accessibility and inclusive design. She holds a Master in Design and Technology from the Parsons School of Design, and a Bachelor in Digital Media Design from Communication University of China.
Yue Zhang is an Interaction Designer and Creative Technologist based in New York/ Beijing. Her work explores combining various materials and emerging technology to invent unique objects and experiences, and how they form and change people’s behavior, feeling and mind in daily life. Meanwhile, she focuses on using playful and positive design to create social values, including recycling, biodiversity, accessibility and inclusive design. She holds a Master in Design and Technology from the Parsons School of Design, and a Bachelor in Digital Media Design from Communication University of China.
Thesis Faculty
Liza Stark
Ethan Silverman
Colleen Macklin
Andrew Zornoza
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