Ngọc Triệu grew up in Hanoi, Vietnam. She is a photographer and design researcher. Her research areas of interest include Japanology, Psychogeography, Design Education, Decolonising Design, and Design Ethics. 

 

While she isn't busy mapping ideas and finding patterns, Ngọc loves to do Kendo (Japanese sword fighting), reading, hiking in the woods, contemplating the moon, taking pictures of friends when they don’t notice, composing haikus, and having good conversations over coffee.

 

Ngọc Triệu holds a bachelor degree in BA (Hons) Design Management & Cultures from the University of Arts London; and a master of science in Design Research from the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation (in cooperation with Humboldt University of Berlin and Anhalt University of Applied Sciences). 

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The site's name 'Entangled Curiosity' reflects her worldview and approach to professional practices. She believes that in order to embrace the beauty of the everyday knowns and unknowns, one must learn to notice design in the everyday environment, want to explore, realise that learning happens in unexpected places in informal ways, go beyond initial appearances or preoccupations, ask questions, and most important of all, be relentlessly curious.