2025–ongoing / Experimental social practice and storytelling initiative / Co-founder and co-organiser; workshop facilitator; fieldwork documentation; visual material coordination; booklet editing

Dāo Dao

Dāo Dao is an experimental social practice and storytelling initiative co-founded by Linyun Song and Xiyu Du.

Overview

Dāo Dao is an experimental social practice and storytelling initiative co-founded by Linyun Song and Xiyu Du.

Fieldwork Context

It began with fieldwork and workshops around Chinese migrant restaurant communities in Camberwell, using food, listening, sound recording, and informal conversation as methods for social connection.

Method

The initiative develops through community mapping and storytelling workshops, fieldwork documentation, booklet editing, translation of community research into public-facing formats, and collaborative visual material production. These outputs were developed with the Dāo Dao workshop team and participants. Related account: @kitch_endoor.

Dāo Dao community restaurant map — Restaurant mapping and research context, 2025.

Long booklet developed by the Dāo Dao workshop team and participants — Long booklet output, 2025.

Short booklet developed by the Dāo Dao workshop team and participants — Short booklet output, 2025.

Co-created canvas activity from Dāo Dao workshop — Co-created canvas activity, 2025.

Fabric poster output from Dāo Dao workshop — Fabric poster / textile output, 2025.

Dāo Dao mobile workshop cart with fieldwork materials — Workshop cart and mobile materials, 2025.

Reflection

While its first phase focused on migrant women’s everyday labour and restaurant spaces, the initiative remains open to broader forms of community storytelling, diasporic memory, food culture, and participatory archives.

中文摘要

Dāo Dao 是由 Linyun Song 与 Xiyu Du 共同发起的实验性社会实践与叙事计划。