Jiawei Ni is a designer working across jewellery and artefact-based practices. He is based in London and recently graduated from the University of the Arts London (London College of Fashion) with an MA in Fashion Artefact. He holds a BA in Jewellery Design, with a strong background in hands-on making and physical model construction.

His practice focuses on how abstract ideas and cultural contexts can be translated into tangible, perceptible objects. Rather than defining his work through specific themes, he is interested in how non-material concepts—such as experience, symbolism, or systems of thought—can take form through material, structure, and use.

Making and model-making form the core of his working methodology. Through repeated processes of building, dismantling, and testing, design decisions are developed directly through physical engagement. For him, making is not a stage of execution, but a way of thinking, in which ideas are refined through material experimentation, proportion, and structural logic.

His works often present clear structural relationships and invite interaction, allowing abstract concepts to be encountered through use, touch, and observation. Through jewellery and artefact-based forms, he continues to explore how objects can act as mediators between ideas, bodily experience, and everyday perception.