LinYee Yuan

New York

Founder and Editor at MOLD

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

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Articles

Furniture That Supports Us, When and Where We Need It

3 weeks 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

1 month 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

1 month ago | 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

2 months ago | 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.
The Abolitionist's Artist Way

Apr 16, 2024 | thisismold.com | LinYee Yuan

MOLD’s series of Food and Abolition considers how the political, social and economic project of prison abolition, ending the prison industrial complex (PIC) and setting in place reparative networks of care, can inform our movement for redesigning sovereign food systems. What might it mean for an art gallery to be a site for community care?
Why Our Communities Need Compost

Dec 6, 2023 | thisismold.com | LinYee Yuan

If you’ve ever lovingly brought a bag of food scraps to your farmers market or local community garden for composting, you understand the beauty of knowing your waste is being turned into nourishing, living, soil. Last month, Mayor Adams announced drastic budget cuts to city services affecting all facets of public life in New York City, from libraries to schools, policing to community composting.
MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food

Oct 19, 2023 | thisismold.com | LinYee Yuan

This story is from MOLD Issue 6: Design for a New Earth, coming out Winter 2023. If the health of our living soils can act as a barometer of our planetary health, we, along with our soils, are endangered.