JANE JIANHAN LU (卢剑晗) is a multidisciplinary designer, researcher, and prototype builder based in Los Angeles. Her practice sits at the collision of ancient epistemic systems and contemporary technology, remixing divination frameworks, indigenous knowledge archives, and historical artifacts with object detection models, physical computation, and speculative hardware. She is drawn to future casting as a practice, using the past as a resource archive to rewire how we read the present and imagine what comes next.

Jane builds things. Her work takes the form of functional objects and interactive systems where ancient and technical logics genuinely interact: not as metaphor, but as working prototypes that produce something neither system could alone. Play is the method: ancient epistemic systems were never passive. You cast the coins, you move the pieces, you read your face. Her work inherits that logic, using play as the primary interaction modality to make knowledge embodied, participatory, and strange.

She holds a BFA in Graphic Design with distinction from California College of the Arts and is completing her MFA at Media Design Practices, ArtCenter College of Design.

Besides design and building, Jane is a plant mum, an occasional pole dancer, and the designated chess loser.