TRACE Showroom
TRACE is a process-driven online exhibition presented by UN-BRIEFED as part of NYCxDESIGN Festival 2026. On view from April 21 to May 20, the exhibition explores how space can be interpreted, recorded, and reimagined through architecture, digital media, graphic design, and spatial storytelling.
Rather than treating space as a purely physical condition, TRACE considers it as a layered field shaped by memory, perception, material traces, visual culture, and lived experience. The selected works bring together architectural design, spatial photography, UX/UI, fine art, illustration, digital fabrication, light wood construction, and material experimentation, examining how spatial meaning is formed, preserved, and transformed.
TRACE is curated by Yan Huo and Yuqing Huang. Through their combined curatorial and digital direction, TRACE becomes both an exhibition of contemporary spatial practices and a carefully designed online environment for international audiences to encounter, navigate, and interpret the works.
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TRACE
TRACE is a process-driven online exhibition presented by UN-BRIEFED as part of NYCxDESIGN Festival 2026. On view from April 21 to May 20, the exhibition explores how space can be interpreted, recorded, and reimagined through architecture, digital media, graphic design, and spatial storytelling.
The selected works reflect a diverse range of creative approaches, from architectural drawings and urban observations to interactive experiences, visual systems, speculative interfaces, and media-based explorations. Rather than focusing only on finished outcomes, TRACE highlights the act of tracing as a critical and imaginative method — a way to uncover hidden relationships, document spatial memories, and construct new narratives around the built environment.
Rather than treating space as a purely physical condition, TRACE considers it as a layered field shaped by memory, perception, material traces, visual culture, and lived experience. The selected works bring together architectural design, spatial photography, UX/UI, fine art, illustration, digital fabrication, light wood construction, and material experimentation, examining how spatial meaning is formed, preserved, and transformed.
TRACE is curated by Yan Huo and Yuqing Huang. Through their combined curatorial and digital direction, TRACE becomes both an exhibition of contemporary spatial practices and a carefully designed online environment for international audiences to encounter, navigate, and interpret the works.
As an online exhibition, TRACE unfolds without a single physical location. Through a distributed digital showroom, each project contributes to a collective mapping of ideas, forming an accessible and evolving archive of spatial thought. We invite visitors to explore this collection as a shared digital space where individual trajectories intersect, and where traces become not only marks of the past, but starting points for future interpretations.
TRACE is a process-driven online exhibition presented by UN-BRIEFED as part of NYCxDESIGN Festival 2026. On view from April 21 to May 20, the exhibition explores how space can be interpreted, recorded, and reimagined through architecture, digital media, graphic design, and spatial storytelling.
The selected works reflect a diverse range of creative approaches, from architectural drawings and urban observations to interactive experiences, visual systems, speculative interfaces, and media-based explorations. Rather than focusing only on finished outcomes, TRACE highlights the act of tracing as a critical and imaginative method — a way to uncover hidden relationships, document spatial memories, and construct new narratives around the built environment.
Rather than treating space as a purely physical condition, TRACE considers it as a layered field shaped by memory, perception, material traces, visual culture, and lived experience. The selected works bring together architectural design, spatial photography, UX/UI, fine art, illustration, digital fabrication, light wood construction, and material experimentation, examining how spatial meaning is formed, preserved, and transformed.
TRACE is curated by Yan Huo and Yuqing Huang. Through their combined curatorial and digital direction, TRACE becomes both an exhibition of contemporary spatial practices and a carefully designed online environment for international audiences to encounter, navigate, and interpret the works.