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Designer
Hi, I'm Yulia an interdisciplinary designer, researcher and educator.
With a background in object and interaction design, I design participatory experiences that work through the body, physical engagement, and space.
I think of them as containers for moments and anchors for memory.
With a background in object and interaction design, I design participatory experiences that work through the body, physical engagement, and space.
I think of them as containers for moments and anchors for memory.
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“There is no better way to gain an understanding of something than by designing it”
(Ackoff et.al)
- This approach is grounded in embodied cognition theory.
- Movement is the mechanism that carries the experience;
- I use bodily engagement to shape how people feel, relate, and make meaning;
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I design with the body in mind
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- This approach necessitates to work across disciplinary boundaries.
- I use research to clarify the core of the experience before shaping its form.
- I design to make sense of something that is hard to grasp, then turn that understanding into a form people can experience.
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I use design to make sense of complexity
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- In that world, my role is not to choreograph every response, but to create the conditions for participation to unfold.
- Design can reshape what feels possible, creating conditions where people encounter new ways of relating to themselves, others, and the world around them.
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I see design as a world-shaping practice
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[2025] ~ A site based experience
Ancestral Pilgrimage
A guided family discovery experience blending genealogical research and experience design into a deeply personal roots adventure for three adult siblings.
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[2025] ~ Experimental gathering
Inner Child
A play-based gathering for a small group of guests, designed as a dreamlike environment where adults could loosen everyday social habits and re-connect with childlike curiosity and wonder.
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[2022] ~ Dual-site interface
Undula
A research-led embodied experience that translates movement, sound, and movement coordination into a shared participatory encounter.
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[2026] ~ Festival entry concept
The Guided Route
A speculative festival entry experience designed for a night-time arts event like Dark Mofo. The concept was developed in a five-day sprint to test AI as a tool for experience visualisation.
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A guided site-based narrative experience for a small audience.
Ancestral Pilgrimage
About:
This project mixed genealogical research with experience design to create a deeply personal roots discovery adventure for three adult siblings.
I began with in-depth genealogical research, gathering and cross-checking sources, triangulating conflicting details, and building a reliable narrative across four generations, from the family's first immigration to Australia onward. As the story took shape, I translated it into a location-based route and designed the reveal as a guided journey so participants could uncover the story themselves through staged fragments, printed prompts, and shared interpretation. My aims were to create a shared bonding experience that supports reflection and identity-making, and to recreate the feeling I had while researching: the slow build, the thrill of finding the right name, the fascination of decoding handwritten archival documents.
I began with in-depth genealogical research, gathering and cross-checking sources, triangulating conflicting details, and building a reliable narrative across four generations, from the family's first immigration to Australia onward. As the story took shape, I translated it into a location-based route and designed the reveal as a guided journey so participants could uncover the story themselves through staged fragments, printed prompts, and shared interpretation. My aims were to create a shared bonding experience that supports reflection and identity-making, and to recreate the feeling I had while researching: the slow build, the thrill of finding the right name, the fascination of decoding handwritten archival documents.
- The route: a one-day, four-hour journey across six locations, moving from the familiar to the unknown so the emotional stakes built as the story reached further back in time.
- The materials: a mix of spoken narration, envelopes, prompt cards, old photographs, newspaper cutouts, infographic timelines, and reproduced archival documents including declassified records.
- The prompts: some reflective, others puzzle-like, for example decoding a handwritten document to identify a great-great-grandfather's tattoos, then drawing them onto a silhouette template.
- The keepsake: a custom-designed book combining a tactile scrapbook aesthetic with a minimalist editorial layout, made to be returned to and shared beyond the day.
- My role: end-to-end across research, writing, experience design, graphic design, production, and facilitation.
Documentation from the day:
Custom-designed keepsake book:
About Me
I trained as an product/industrial designer, moved into interaction design, and completed a PhD exploring embodied communication and human connectedness. Across that path, I kept returning to the same question: how can design deepen our connection to ourselves, to others, and to the world around us?
Research sits at the core of my practice. I tend to work backwards from the experience I want to create, going deeply into a subject to understand what that experience is really made of. From there, the mechanics, form, and medium follow. I’m especially drawn to experiences carried through the body: through movement, sensation, participation, and spatial relation, and to forms of experience that open up new ways of feeling, relating, and understanding a moment. Over time, that way of working has converged in experience design, which feels like the clearest expression of what I’ve been building toward all along.
Research sits at the core of my practice. I tend to work backwards from the experience I want to create, going deeply into a subject to understand what that experience is really made of. From there, the mechanics, form, and medium follow. I’m especially drawn to experiences carried through the body: through movement, sensation, participation, and spatial relation, and to forms of experience that open up new ways of feeling, relating, and understanding a moment. Over time, that way of working has converged in experience design, which feels like the clearest expression of what I’ve been building toward all along.
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- PhD in Interaction Design exploring human connectedness experience.
- 10+ years across design practice, research, and teaching.
- Concept-to-realisation experience across exhibitions, objects, and experimental interaction design.
- Taught 50+ courses across 17 design subjects and 1000+ students.
- Senior product design experience coordinating public-space projects with architects, manufacturers, and city officials.
Experience Designer
Yulia Brazauskayte,
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