Ruoran (Lerena) Zhao
Lerena approaches design as a way of thinking — an exploratory process that moves fluidly across disciplines. Her work spans products, furniture, architecture, and interiors, unified by a deep curiosity about how material, scale, form and sensation shape human experience, and how design can help open new ways of seeing, understanding, and relating. She embraces ambiguity and uncertainty as a space for discovery, allowing unanticipated solutions to emerge through research and creative dialogue with the context — an ongoing pursuit to not only respond, but to expand the boundaries of what design can reveal and reshape.