JIEYI LUDDEN ZHOU 周杰意
  • East/West Batik arts
  • Art
    • Batik
    • paper making
    • Papercraft & Shadow Boxes (2019 - 2023)
    • Trifecta Poetry Project (2018)
    • Scaredy Cat (2017)
    • Dinosaurs (2016)
    • Hard Reset (2016)
    • True Stories (2016)
    • Our Questions (2015)
    • Madison Children's Museum (2014)
    • Bits and Pieces
  • Design
    • Recipes for Creative Healing
    • Dynamic Waters
    • Alphabet Alliance of Color
    • Plant Allies
    • Parisol / 互助 / 团结力量
    • Fox tale Coffee
    • Moonyeka/Movement As Medicine
    • Foxbot Industries
    • Healthcare UX/UI mockup
    • Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery
    • Sunny Side Up
    • Physics Museum
    • Extras
  • Illustration
    • South Seattle Emerald
    • Tattoo Flash
    • Creatures
    • Integrative Biology
    • Sketchbook
  • Classes
  • About
  • contact
  • East/West Batik arts
  • Art
    • Batik
    • paper making
    • Papercraft & Shadow Boxes (2019 - 2023)
    • Trifecta Poetry Project (2018)
    • Scaredy Cat (2017)
    • Dinosaurs (2016)
    • Hard Reset (2016)
    • True Stories (2016)
    • Our Questions (2015)
    • Madison Children's Museum (2014)
    • Bits and Pieces
  • Design
    • Recipes for Creative Healing
    • Dynamic Waters
    • Alphabet Alliance of Color
    • Plant Allies
    • Parisol / 互助 / 团结力量
    • Fox tale Coffee
    • Moonyeka/Movement As Medicine
    • Foxbot Industries
    • Healthcare UX/UI mockup
    • Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery
    • Sunny Side Up
    • Physics Museum
    • Extras
  • Illustration
    • South Seattle Emerald
    • Tattoo Flash
    • Creatures
    • Integrative Biology
    • Sketchbook
  • Classes
  • About
  • contact
JIEYI LUDDEN ZHOU 周杰意

Our Questions

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Interactive performance, installation, and website, 2015. Our Dumb Questions explored a hesitancy to ask questions because of a fear of revealing ignorance.

Over the course of a year, I interviewed people to ask what kinds of questions they were curious about, but didn't feel like they could ask. In a gallery show, I made cookies stamped with question marks, which were given to people in exchange for questions.

​The questions from each of these experiences were cataloged and presented at the Monona Public Library and online at ourdumbquestions.com
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Cookies

For a gallery show at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I designed a question mark shaped cookie press to make cookies to exchange for people's questions. Cookies are a delicious currency.
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​I made some tutorials so that you can design and bake your own cookies.
Design a Cookie Press
More Cookie Presses
What would you like to exchange for cookies?
Different Cookies
Other Different Cookies
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Big Red Push Button

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For an installation at the Monona Public Library, I used a big red push button that can be pressed to get a new question. I was pretty new to working with circuits and learned a lot in the process. I made a guide for programming your own big red push button.
Big Red Push Button Tutorial
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Jiéyì Zhou 周杰意
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