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Every Archive是由设计师团体发起的档案式集合平台。我们希望以多角度、跨领域、国际化的探索重视当代语境下的中国文化,构建新的叙事结构。我们专注在以下领域:
Every Archive is a team of creatives that interdisciplinary & international communication. We focus on:


01
调研与策略
Research & Strategy

02
内容与策展
Content & Curation

03
视觉、物件、空间设计
Visual, Object, Space Design

04
编辑与出版
Editorial & Publication




宣言
Manifesto


Every archive秉承以“物”为线索,以“档案”为方法,以“文化对话”为目标进行实践和探索。
Every Archive is devoted to the cultural life of “objects” and the archival progress. At once, a print journal, a curatorial programme, and an emergent cultural proposition.



01
           我们对“物”的定义

物,既可以是手工艺、过程或建筑,也可以是记忆、习俗或思想——我们对“物”的理解,并不限于实体形态。Every Archive认为,凡具感知、传承与意义者皆可称为“物”。

An “Object” may be a craft, a process, or a building; it may equally be a memory, a custom, or a thought. Our conception of the “object” is not restricted to its material form. For Every Archive, whatever carries perception, transmits inheritance, and embodies meaning may rightly be called an “object.”



02
           我们的目标

Every Archive 致力于通过内容策划与传播,将文化经验转化为可流通的知识产 品与品牌资产,从而创造文化与经济的双重价值。这种“经验”应超越历史阶段、地理界限与意识形态,能够转化为大众可理解、可感知、可参与的文化形式。

在这一过程中,“档案实践”是一种以文明为核心、延展至多个时空与区域的文化系统,并非局限于现代政治地理概念。Every Archive将持续发掘它在当下社会中的现实价值与未来可能。

Every Archive is committed to transforming cultural experience into knowledge exchange and brand assets through curatorial practice and dissemination, thereby generating both cultural and economic value. Such “experience” must transcend historical period, geographical boundaries, and ideological frameworks, and be translatable into cultural forms that are intelligible, sensorial, and participatory for the wider public.

Within this process, “archival practice” is understood as a civilisational system — extending across times and regions—rather than a construct confined to the modern categories of political geography. Every Archive will continue to explore its various interpretation and its potentials under contemporary circumstances.



03
            我们的研究方法和形式

Every Archive 将打破学科界限,主张跨学科的方法论。融合建筑学的空间观、历史学的时序逻辑、地理学的流动视角与人类学的田野经验等跨学科知识,以档案为形式,对“物”进行记录、诠释与呈现。

Every Archive seeks to transcend disciplinary boundaries, explore and express via inter-disciplinary methodology. We draw together the spatial imagination of architecture, the temporal logics of history, the fluid perspectives of geography, and the fieldwork practices of anthropology. Through the form of the archive, we record, interpret, and re-present the manifold realities of the “object.”



04 
           我们的精神

Every Archive 所追求的是文化的多重性、经验的分享性,不主张经验的唯一性。Every Archive 不追求观念的统一,不定义所谓的真理。我们永远保持和追求开放、流动并具有反思性的知识表达态度。

在这里,档案研究不是归类文化,知识分享不是框定思想,文化传播不是纸上谈兵。我们将呈现这样一份档案,汇图籍之丰,聚文笔之盛:

让工艺与纸媒再次闪耀,
将人文与商业结成同盟,
让四海之际的物质文化,
光兹前绪,再启斯文。

Every Archive affirms cultural multiplicity and the necessity of sharing both knowledge and experience, resisting the reduction of lived realities to singular or limited typologies. We do not seek the unification of ideologies, nor do we lay claim to the definition of so-called ‘truths.’ Instead, we cultivate an attitude toward knowledge—its exchange, expression, and critical discussion—that remains open, fluid, and reflexive.

Here, archival research is not the classification of culture; the sharing of knowledge is not the confinement of thinking; cultural transmission is never a matter of idle theorising. Every Archive aspires to present such an archive — abundant in visuals, resonant in words:

To make craft and print sparkle once again,
To forge an alliance between the humanistic and the commercial,
To gather the material cultures of the world, 
To renew the traces of the past and rejuvenate the immaterial.


Every Archive Managing Team





于和玄
Hexuan Yu
创始人& 主编
Founder & Managing Director
MArch AA Dipl Architecture
Architecture Association

黄灿灿
Cancan Huang
创始人& 品牌管理 
Founder & Brand Director
MA Graphic Communication Design
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London

Ginko
艺术指导& 平面设计
Creative Director & Editorial Designer
MA Graphic Communication Design
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
许捷
Jocelyn Xu
学术编辑顾问 
Strategic Director - Academic & Editing
PhD(c) in History
York University
王贝伊
Beiyi Wang
策展及筹划顾问 
Strategic Director - Curation
MFA Communication,
Royal College of Art
杨普桉
Puan Yang
档案及策划顾问 
Strategic Director - Academic & Proofread
MPhil in History
University of Lisbon
谢心仪
Xinyi Xie
学术顾问及校对负责 
Strategic Director - Archive & Consultant
PhD(c) in Archaeoogy





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©Every Archive 2025









Last Updated 2025.09.11
Every Archive
Every Archive Vol.1 – RITUS, 2025







Every Archive – Ritual in Progress 
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Exhibition Ritual in Progress
@The Handbag Factory
London Design Festival

Every Archive is a cultural agency and curatorial platform operating between London and Shanghai. Founded by a collective of designers and researchers, we explore the evolving narratives of Chinese material culture through design, publication, and exhibition. 

Our practice bridges academic inquiry with creative production, connecting Chinese and British scholars, artists, and institutions. Structured as an independent studio, we operate with the long-term vision of becoming a non-profit cultural institution. 

In September of 2025, we will launch the first edition of our bilingual magazine, featuring 18 brands and over 30 artifacts, alongside our debut exhibition during London Design Festival. Through field research, editorial work, and object-based storytelling, Every Archive repositions art, design, humanity research and curatorial practice as a tool for cultural dialogue and transnational collaboration.





Every Archive ManifestoEvery Archive is devoted to the cultural life of “objects” and the archival progress. At once, a print journal, a curatorial programme, and an emergent cultural proposition.




The Objects
An Archive of Objects, A Multidisciplinary Platform, A Cultural Interface, A Value Creator, A Narrative Storyteller and A New Way of Seeing.

Every Archive unfolds as a dynamic curatorial entity, initiated by a collective of design practitioners and operating within an archival-assemblage framework. We engage in multidimensional, interdisciplinary research aimed at reviewing Chinese artifacts under contemporary context, crafting innovative narrative frameworks that transcend conventional classifications while sustaining inspiring cultural dialogues. Driven by a profound impulse to share cultural insights and the beauty of design, this initiative catalyses transcultural exchanges across a spectrum of design languages.





Ritual In Progress 
Public Programme
From eating and cleansing to socialising and mourning, repeated gestures across generations have solidified into deep ritual structures. Ritual in Progress by Every Archive invites reflection on how such acts endure today—and how objects embody and renew the rituals of everyday life.






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