Hsiao Yun Chu

Hsiao-Yun Chu

Hsiao Yun Chu

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Professor
School of Design, College of Liberal and Creative Arts

Phone Number:
(415) 338-2430
Location:
HUM 116B

At SF State Since:

2006

Office Hours:

Sunday: Closed
Monday: 13:00-15:00
Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday: Closed
Thursday: Closed
Friday: Closed
Saturday: Closed

All advising appointments scheduled through Zoom.

Link is:  https://sfsu.zoom.us/j/99284375787?pwd=Z0YzYXk2SWpseHVnV0QrcXJxSGxOdz09

Education: 

Ph.D., University of Brighton, Brighton UK

M.S. Eng, Product Design, Stanford University

A.B. cum laude, Harvard University

Research Interests: 

Hsiao-Yun Chu's interests include design history, user-based research methodology, project-based learning, practice-based research, curatorship, and the cultural and social implications of design. She is the author of two books and numerous articles on design and design history. She is also an associate editor with the International Journal of Design. Prof. Chu has taught a wide range of courses in the School of Design, including history of design, product design studio courses, graduate seminars, research and methods courses, writing, design process, model making, and packaging design courses.

Prof. Chu is the coordinator of the Graduate MA Program in Design. She advises current and prospective students, promotes and grows the program, and contributes to curriculum development in this area. Several of her advisees have won state- and national-level awards for the quality of their research and presentation. Several of her advisees have also won the CSU state level competitions for graduate research and creative activity.

Prof. Chu is the Study Abroad advisor for incoming students from our bilateral programs including Brunel University, Dublin Institute of Technology, Swinburne University, University of Technology Sydney, NABA in Milan, and Chung Yuan University in Taiwan, and has served as the Study Abroad Advisor since 2013. Outgoing (SF State) study abroad students are advised by Prof. Ricardo Gomes.

Books: New Views on R. Buckminster Fuller (Stanford University Press, 2009)

Dymaxion Car: Buckminster Fuller (IvoryPress, 2010)

Publications: Hsiao-Yun Chu

Books

Glancey, Jonathan and Chu, Hsiao-Yun. Dymaxion Car: Buckminster Fuller. IvoryPress, 2010.

A detailed and fully-illustrated and history of the first three Dymaxion cars by R. Buckminster Fuller. Also shows the recent recreation of a Dymaxion car built according to the original plans by Foster & Partners, London.

Chu, Hsiao-Yun and Trujillo, Roberto. New Views on R. Buckminster Fuller, Stanford University Press, 2009.

This volume takes a critical, historical look at the work of R. Buckminster Fuller, tracing the impact of his work on architecture, design and society across the twentieth century.

 

Dissertation

R. Buckminster Fuller's Model of Nature: Its Role in His Design Process and the Presentation and Reception of His Work, University of Brighton, 2015. Advisors: Jonathan M. Woodham and Jyri Kermik

 

Contributions to Books

Chu, Hsiao-Yun. “Fuller and Noguchi: Universal Travelers through Space, Time, and Ideas,” in Noguchi and Greece, Greece and Noguchi, edited by Ananda Pellerin. Atélier Editions, 2023.

Chu, Hsiao-Yun.  “Roam Home to a Dome,” in Proceedings of the 12th ICDHS Conference. UPI2M Books and the Institute for the Research of the Avant-Garde, 2020.

Chu, Hsiao-Yun. “Geodesic Domes: The Architectural Vernacular of the Counterculture.” Proceedings of the International Conference on Design History and Design Studies, 2016.

Chu, Hsiao-Yun. Three entries in The Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in World History, edited by Kenneth Hendrickson (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014).

Chu, Hsiao-Yun.  “Un esbozo biográfico: A Biographical Sketch” in Arquitectura Viva, Buckminster Fuller Monograph (143), 2010.

Chu, Hsiao-Yun. “Paper Mausoleum,” in New Views on R. Buckminster Fuller (2009).

Chu, Hsiao-Yun. Two entries in Material Culture in America: Understading Everyday Life, edited by Shirley Wajda and Helen Sheuemaker (ACB-Clio, 2007).

 

Peer Reviewed Articles

Chu, Hsiao-Yun. “Universal Design for Learning: Basic Principles and Applications,” In E. Bohemia et al (Eds.), Proceedings of the DRS Learn X Design 2021: 6th International Conference for Design Education Researchers Vol. 4: 1072–1075.

Design Research Society. “Universal Design for Learning.” Proceedings of the 6th International Conference for Design Education Researchers, Shandong, China, Sept. 2020.

Chu, Hsiao-Yun. “407 South Forest: The House that Bucky Barely Lived In” West 86th, A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture, University of Chicago Press, 27:2 (Winter 2020): 231-249

Chu, Hsiao-Yun. “The Evolution of the Fuller Geodesic Dome: From Black Mountain to Drop City.” Design and Culture 10:2 (July 2018): 121-138.

Chu, Hsiao-Yun and J. Singer. “Operating Manual for Graphic Designers.” Proceedings of the 34th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student, Vol. 34:1 (2018).

Chu, Hsiao-Yun. “Geodesic Domes: The Architectural Vernacular of the Counterculture.” Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Design History and Design Studies, 2016.

Chu, Hsiao-Yun. “Paper Mausoleum,” in New Views on R. Buckminster Fuller (2009).

Chu, Hsiao-Yun.  “Fuller’s Laboratory Notebook.”  Collections, a Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals, Fall 2008: 295-305.

Chu, Hsiao-Yun. “R. Buckminster Fuller: A Brief History Through Documents.” Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Florence Symposium of Art and Design, Florence, IT, 5-18 November 2008.

Chu, Hsiao-Yun.  “Learning From Their Elders: Product design students gain insight and inspiration from local senior population.”  Proceedings of the Fourth Cambridge Workshop on Universal Access & Assistive Technology. Cambridge Univ., Cambridge, UK, April 2008.

Day, M. P. Evans, S. Rosen, and H.Y. Chu. “The Sound Web: Audible Wayfinding at San Francisco State University.” Proceedings of the Fourth Cambridge Workshop on Universal Access & Assistive Technology. Cambridge Univ., Cambridge UK, April 2008.

 

Editor Reviewed Articles

Chu, Hsiao-Yun. “Design History by Kjetil Fallan.” (Review) Winterthur Magazine. Fall 2012.

Chu, Hsiao-Yun.  “Design Ecologies: Essays on the Nature of Design by Lisa Tilder and Beth Blostein, eds.” (Review)  Design and Culture 3:2 (2011): 271-273.

Chu, Hsiao-Yun. “Archives and Archivists in 20th Century England.” (Review). Collections, A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals, Fall 2010, 319-320.

Chu, Hsiao-Yun. “Laura Guido-Clark Design.” DESIGN 151, Taipei, Taiwan 2010.

Chu, Hsiao-Yun. “Agua Design: Poetry in Motion.” Taiwan Design Center, San Francisco, May 2010.

Chu, Hsiao-Yun. “Dollar Stores’ Cheap Thrills Come at a Price.” Ambidextrous : Stanford University’s Journal of Design, Spring 2010: 12-13.

Chu, Hsiao-Yun. “Old Trade and New Revolution.” DESIGN  148, Taipei, Taiwan, 2009.

Chu, Hsiao-Yun. “Managing Design: An Interview with Derek Chen.” Taiwan Design Center, San Francisco, July 2009.

Chu, Hsiao-Yun. “The Shape of Things to Come, or Not? (Review) Ambidextrous Spring 2009: 49.

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