Work Folio

Yen Trinh is a designer from Brisbane, Australia.   She is passionate about urban spaces, community building and collaborative design.  She has worked for design firms, non-profits and government, in Australia, Toronto and New York, and enjoys bringing creative strategies to place-making and experience design.  She is a graduate of the unique multi-disciplinary program Institute without Boundaries in Toronto,  was the 2008 National Young Planner (Planning Institute of Australia) and the 2011 QLD Emerging Design Leader  Award recipient.  

Design heroes include Jane Jacobs,  IDEO, Jan Gehl, Friends of High Line, Bruce Mau, GOOD magazine, Candy Chang, and Monocle magazine

CONTACT: yengen(at)gmail.com

CV – LinkedIn

PROJECT FOLIO (2008 – 2012) > http://issuu.com/yengen/docs/ytrinh_general_folio_may12

Project Websites

Priority Seating for Conversation 

UR{BNE} Films

Presentations & Talks

  1. Creativity is the Power to Connect (Flying Arts, 2012) - http://issuu.com/yengen/docs/flying_arts_creativity_presentation
  2. Somewhere to Sit – Food court workshop (Design Minds APDL, 2012)  - http://issuu.com/yengen/docs/seating-apdl_presentation
  3. Festivals as City Making  (Brisbane Development Association and UR{BNE}, 2012) - http://issuu.com/yengen/docs/bda_presentation_y_trinh
  4. Queensland Premier Design Awards Breakfast – Emerging Design Leader Report (2012) – http://issuu.com/yengen/docs/qpda_presentation
  5. Art + Place – AILA Breakfast Presentation (2012) – http://issuu.com/yengen/docs/aila_art_place_presentation 
  6. Public Design (Designing Happiness APDL, 2011) – http://issuu.com/yengen/docs/apdl_presentation_y_trinh

    http://designonline.org.au/content/designing-for-happiness-lectures-public-design/

  7. Making Planning Fun (PIA QLD Conference 2011) – http://issuu.com/yengen/docs/ytrinh_pia_planning_fun_2011
  8. 20 Wishes for Brisbane (Pecha Kucha, 2011)
    http://issuu.com/yengen/docs/pk_20_wishes
  9. Designing for Safety (Kelvin Grove State College Design Challenge, 2011) – http://issuu.com/yengen/docs/kgsc
  10. Urban Design Going Viral + Park(ing) Day (UDAL, 2011) - http://issuu.com/yengen/docs/udal_presentation_a4_v1
  11. Iwb Sponsorship:  Summary & Urban Ideas to Steal for Brisbane (2009) – http://issuu.com/yengen/docs/bcc_city_design_presentation
  12. Park(ing) Day and Collaborative Design (2009)
    http://issuu.com/yengen/docs/qut_iwb_and_parking
  13. IwB Presentations and reports (2008-2009)
    http://www.worldhouse.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=73&Itemid=119
  14. Planner Art – Public Art and Urban Planning (2008)
    http://issuu.com/yengen/docs/plannerart

Other Writing & Blogs

Brisbane PARK(ing) Day

Yen’s World House Project

Map Magazine’s Streeteditors.

Collaborations, projects and friends include:

  1. City Forward – BMW Guggenheim Lab
  2. Diner en Blanc –  Brisbane
  3. UR{BNE} Festival - May 2012
  4. Brisbane Sketchcrawl  
  5. Space Imagineers Anonymous
  6. Boy and Bird 
  7. QLD Premier’s Design Awards
  8. Kelvin Grove – Designing Futures 
  9. Brisbane PARK(ing) Day
  10. Hutwheels
  11. Games Night
  12. OpenIDEO: Food Production: Multicultural Recipe Book (2011 Ideas Festival Finalist) 
  13. The Sketchbook Project:2012 :Art House Co-op (Travel with Me) 
  14. Suburban Grind
  15. ARUP – Making Cities Work
  16. TEDx Brisbane
  17. Pecha Kucha Brisbane 
  18. Urban Smart Projects (traffic signal painting)
  19. Bubble Tea Love

NYC

  1. NYC PARK(ing) Day
  2. Architecture for Humanity – Under the BQE
  3. Do Tank: Brooklyn
  4. Design Trust for Public Space
  5. Project Intersection
  6. Monthly Design Review
  7. Terra Farm, Brooklyn
  8. A Landscape Manifesto
  9. Pratt Design Incubator

Toronto

  1. Institute without Boundaries
  2. City Builder Book Club

UK 

  1. AA SummerMAKE

Projects in Videos

Interviews and Media

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