Amy Chan 陳曉嵐
I'm drawn to observing people's interactions. My mind constantly moves between watching and asking why—a curious process that helps me make sense of everyday life. Each question becomes its own small world, one I explore to build new connections within ever-growing constellations.
I'm passionate about synthesising knowledge across communication design, visual arts, pedagogy, exhibition interpretation, and sociology. This curiosity has shaped my path—from an undergraduate degree in Psychology at Western University, through studies in Communication Design at Parsons School of Design, to postgraduate degrees in Art Administration at Hong Kong Baptist University and, most recently, Sociology (Cultural Analysis) at Goldsmiths, University of London. Along the way, I've taught communication design, directed a community learning initiative, and served as Curator of Learning and Engagement at the M+ Museum.
For years, I poured my curiosity into knowledge systems while remaining unaware of my own being—until my body demanded attention. I have lived with structural scoliosis since my teenage years, and only when I could no longer ignore the episodic pain and progressive curve did I understand what I had overlooked: my own embodied experience as a site of wisdom. This awakening revealed the gap between the accessibility frameworks I had engaged with professionally and the lived reality of disability. From that understanding, it would be my goal and deeper commitment to inclusive practice and to interrogate what access intimacy (Mia Mingus, 2011) means in cultural work. The twists and turns converge on what matters most to me in my independent research: communicating difference and exploring intersubjectivity in cultural praxis.