Xueqing Wang

Interior Design, 2021

The goal of Teco center is to recycle e-waste, educate and reunion the residents, and refresh the community. We help the local community by bringing jobs and knowledge, as well as providing affordable electronics.

Teco is an e-cycle studio that aims at reducing e-waste and help the people in Franklinton. Teco recycles discarded small appliances and mobile devices; Teco provides electronic repair training to residents; Teco resells fixed electronics to local Franklinton residents at affordable prices. For those recycled pieces that cannot be repaired, Teco provides them as raw material to local artists to create artworks. Through this environment-friendly circle, Teco brings benefits to customers, the local community, and artists.

Xueqing Wang is a 2021 graduate of the Interior Design Program at The Ohio State University. She is a designer who designs through scientific reasoning, cognitive empathy, and creative imagination. She is interested in accessibility design.