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Kaisa, Tommi and Yin sit outside on a terrace of a Lebanese
restaurant in Berlin. The restaurant is located close to the
residency where Yin was staying. Kaisa turns on the
recording on her phone.

KAISA: Your Urbanizing the Digital -article 1 is one of the main reasons why we wanted to make an interview with you for this publication. You were trying to sketch new lenses and concepts to approach urban questions and design practices. We would love to hear more about them.

YIN: Thank you. All my current research goes back to the time when I was doing my Masters in the Design department in Sandberg Instituut a few years ago. At that time I was thinking of how design is always working on the premises of mass communication, and if there is a way to do it differently. Some people may argue that we are moving towards mass customization, the whole mechanism of design is actually to serve mass profit. That is capitalism in a sense. So, in a way, design is made to serve capitalism, even if it is dealing with anti-capitalist message.