Xinyi Li is an Assistant Professor in the Undergraduate Communications Design Department at Pratt Institute. Her recent research concern the implications of platform literacy in design education, diasporic experience, values of the invisible and legibility, digital resistance and creative subversions. She complicates teaching with questions of (visual)languages and regards untranslatability and dissonances in languages as generative sites of knowledge in transcultural learning contexts. With the group Post-Radical Pedagogy, she questions the values and legacies that shape design pedagogical practice.
Previously, she collaborated on Digital Humanities scholarly projects, explored issues of interdisciplinary collaborative research, and taught workshops providing design and thinking tools to facilitate meaningful visual production for humanistic knowledge at the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University. Through her practice, she has engaged in design research for healthcare experience and interaction design.
Previously, she collaborated on Digital Humanities scholarly projects, explored issues of interdisciplinary collaborative research, and taught workshops providing design and thinking tools to facilitate meaningful visual production for humanistic knowledge at the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University. Through her practice, she has engaged in design research for healthcare experience and interaction design.
TEACHING
Pratt Institute, Undergraduate Communications Design
Assistant Professor
Pratt Institute, Graduate Communications Design
Teaching Assistant
2015 Spring and Fall Typographic + Information Design, with Gaia Scagnetti
2015 Fall Typographic + Information Design, with Tony Di Spigna
EXPERIENCE
Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University
2016–2018
Diagram
2016–2017
Apple
2016
Intel
2014
Pratt Institute, Undergraduate Communications Design
Assistant Professor
Pratt Institute, Graduate Communications Design
Teaching Assistant
2015 Spring and Fall Typographic + Information Design, with Gaia Scagnetti
2015 Fall Typographic + Information Design, with Tony Di Spigna
EXPERIENCE
Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University
2016–2018
Diagram
2016–2017
Apple
2016
Intel
2014
WORKSHOPS
2018
Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University
Data Visualization 2
2017
Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University
Design Thinking
Design a Conference Poster
Interactive Design
Pratt Free School Designer as Facilitator, with Nicole Salamone
2016
Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University Design: Visual Language and Typography
2018
Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University
Data Visualization 2
2017
Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University
Design Thinking
Design a Conference Poster
Interactive Design
Pratt Free School Designer as Facilitator, with Nicole Salamone
2016
Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University Design: Visual Language and Typography
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
“Critique: Extending Physical Space.” Co-PI with Gaia Hwang, Grant for support online instruction development, Provost’s Office, Pratt Institute, 2020–2021
“Post-Radical Pedagogy.” Co-PI with Nida Abdullah and Chris Lee, Strategic Initiative Grant, Provost’s Office and the Strategic Plan Oversight Committee, Pratt Institute, 2020–2021
Design Incubation Fellowship, Design Incubation, 2020
“Critique: Extending Physical Space.” Co-PI with Gaia Hwang, Grant for support online instruction development, Provost’s Office, Pratt Institute, 2020–2021
“Post-Radical Pedagogy.” Co-PI with Nida Abdullah and Chris Lee, Strategic Initiative Grant, Provost’s Office and the Strategic Plan Oversight Committee, Pratt Institute, 2020–2021
Design Incubation Fellowship, Design Incubation, 2020