Hey, I'm Chia. I'm a CS & Art student at Yale by way of Manila. I design and code radical initiatives & products for good.
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I'm a technologist & designer. At Developh, I accelerate and invest in youth-led innovation across Southeast Asia. On campus, I do creative research at the CCAM, advise student startups, and lead a design organization. Online, I write and create experiences. Let's talk?
If you enjoy my writing, experiments, or creations, I have a Tinyletter I send out every few months!
A universe simulator, after Orteil's Nested
When you watch the world, it watches you back. Log online into a stream of exposed security cameras and CCTV feeds...
I founded Developh in 2016, now we're nurturing student founders in Southeast Asia. We're advising student-centric incubation & tech education, running an accelerator, and an online community. Say hi—chia@developh.org.
Founded Yale's design organization (a chapter of UXSociety founded in Manila) where we work with 20+ designers, teaching design and serving clients.
Building experimental and emerging tech across games, the peer-to-peer web, and exploring code and the web as an art form.
I am writing a poem a day for National Poetry Month again.
Poetry and gods. ~5k words
they might be broken, they might be giants...
GIRLS.PH: publishing recs that you love INTERN.PH: companies & compensations in the philippines MUSICOH!: a topsters alternative chart generator. GAY GIRL PRAYS FOR A GUN: an interactive fiction. ROUND: an introspective journey around the world god idle incremental (EXPERIMENTAL). godsent: of presidents playing god. a by-students, for-students accelerator. a newsletter from the yale women's center. a digital publication for philippine tech. a video series about myself and the failure to grow up. a web app collating progressive candidates for the philippine midterms, reaching over millions of filipinos. a digital experience about time and self. an if piece about dying. reclamation (poem) published in rambutan literary a song for our fathers (poem) shared by siklab poetry a microsoft imagine cup-winning project about digital humanitarianism. a poem a day from national poetry month in 2018. a tale of sadness and sorrow... texting your ded gf a collection of work from age 16 and before. a place behind the sea.