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Space as an enitity

As a designer, I experience space as a living thing. With the idea that space can give a sign of life at any moment if we look away for a moment. That at any moment it can start breathing or get up and walk away. In my idea, then, there is more than the human perception of things. If only you make the effort to look at the world with different eyes. This is because as a designer I am looking for recognition of substantiality or something of life in space. After all, I see that we as humans have lost what it is to be human.

Lost how it is to be human

So sometimes I ask myself: what is it really like to be human, and are we still human? I see that we as humans have gradually turned into objects because we use each other in this way or because we have become accustomed to this because our spaces usually already tell us what their function is but also what our function in the space is. So in my design, I approach the space as an entirely new being with its mysterious world where the user is only a guest. Which like any new life comes with unpredictability, substantiality, and ignorance. Something that perhaps resembles us. Something in its new chaos can offer us recognition of what we have lost. But also raise new questions about there being more than just our human experience of things.