LinYee Yuan

New York

Founder and Editor at MOLD

Editor @thisismold / Entrepreneur in residence @QZ / Globetrotter / Cat Lover

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Articles

MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food

1 week ago | thisismold.com | LinYee Yuan

Publishing MOLD for the past twelve years has taught me many lessons but perhaps the most important one in this moment of personal and planetary transition is untangling myself from capitalist notions of time. I’ve adopted a personal mantra of being “on tree time.” It is a skein that weaves together two threads: the myriad rhythms that orient perceptions of time and the recognition that many environmental and community conditions have to align for ideas to take root.
A Solstice Goodbye

1 week ago | thisismold.com | LinYee Yuan

After 12 years of publishing MOLD, we are throwing a little party on our final day. Join us in Crown Heights, Brooklyn for a Summer Solstice celebration with our sister organization, Field Meridians and help us say goodbye and thank you to our incredible community of editors, contributors, and readers.
MOLD commits to PACBI

4 weeks ago | thisismold.com | LinYee Yuan

Today marks the 600th day since Israel launched a full scale war to mask their campaign of genocide against the Palestinian people. MOLD stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people in their struggle for liberation against the Israeli occupation and genocide. We continue to honor the sovereignty of Indigenous peoples and their right to be in relationship and stewardship of their homelands.
Furniture That Supports Us, When and Where We Need It

2 months ago | untappedjournal.com | Mark Byrnes |Anjulie Rao |LinYee Yuan |Peter Shire

I’ve never had an “eye for design.” It wasn’t until my mid-twenties that I first truly noticed a piece of furniture: Walking into a friend’s apartment, I observed a skeleton of what might have been a love seat. There were no cushions; cross-hatched wood slats were laid bare, and the grain, illuminated by the sunlight, was dulled from use but still striking. It was not large, but simple, streamlined. I asked if it was meant to be a couch.
Untapped - LinYee Yuan

2 months ago | untappedjournal.com | LinYee Yuan |Edwin Heathcote |Jesse Dorris

In Brooklyn winters, sunset can start as early as 4 p.m. The sky is gray, the windchill is biting, and the city is covered in a crusty film of salt. Even in this season of darkness (and in the now-tempting light of spring), dozens of neighbors have been gathering every Sunday afternoon in a local bar to plant the seeds for how they might build a forest garden in the Central Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights.
Indigenous TEK for a Climate Resilient LA

Mar 26, 2025 | thisismold.com | LinYee Yuan

This piece is a part of our series Metabolic Systems which looks into the cycles that underpin our cultures of consumption, from decay to digestion. In the first week of the new year, we witnessed an incomprehensible tragedy unfold before our eyes: Los Angeles was on fire. For 24 days, 14 firestorms tore through the city sparing nothing. The fire had its own logic, taking family homes in the historically black neighborhood of Altadena and leveling seaside mansions along the Pacific Palisades.
MOLD is Divesting from the Internet

Feb 25, 2025 | thisismold.com | LinYee Yuan

MOLD is divesting from the internet. Our last day of publication will be June 20, 2025, the day of the summer solstice in our home base of New York City. Our energies, resources and gifts will transition to the work of Field Meridians, our sister project, an artist collective rooted in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, committed to creating tools for ecological resilience through social practice.
Gardening as a Design Method

Sep 16, 2024 | thisismold.com | LinYee Yuan

This conversation comes from the 10th issue of Robida magazine. Each issue explores a topic connected to Topolò/Topolove, the village on the border between Italy and Slovenia where the collective is based. How might we learn from the garden — a space of complex, biodiverse entanglements and transformations — as we cultivate places and communities that nourish resilience?
Planting a Food Forest

Sep 9, 2024 | thisismold.com | LinYee Yuan

relational architectures is a series that locates ways for design to operate through relationships built on solidarity. When Khalil Griffith first moved to South Beacon Hill in Seattle, he was working a job he didn’t really care for and he felt a sense of loneliness. “All I had was my house plants and two friends,” he recounted. As he was exploring his new neighborhood in search of something “to get into,” he saw a flyer for a work party at the Beacon Food Forest.
MOLD 6 Editor's Note

Jun 24, 2024 | thisismold.com | LinYee Yuan

This essay is from the forthcoming print issue of MOLD magazine, Design for a New Earth. Pre-Order your copy here. We are living in portal times. We are birthing new worlds. In our final print issue of MOLD, we return to the microbial scale by focusing on designing new earths on this Earth: to spark new imaginaries, forge new relationships, and most importantly, ground ourselves in the soil. We engage with soil every time we eat.