What does it mean to you to study from home?

The COVID epidemic has been a blow to our lives, a considerable change, but also an opportunity. Facing this change, the Criticality In Practice - designers salon& alumni conversation, which links design researchers from different studios and former GMD MA students worldwide, brings new insights to us.

The epidemic has changed the way we live, the way we learn. The way we access knowledge has changed from the traditional offline to online, and we spend almost all of our time in our bedroom. Our perceptions, knowledge, insights are gained from this space, and our socialising, entertaining and communicating all happen in our bedroom. We have to face the computer to acquire new knowledge. Gradually, the bedroom has become an essential part of our lives over the years; we have moved away from traditional socialising. The computer, the bed, the table, the stool, they have all become part of our lives, and we have gradually integrated...

"Defamiliarisation is the artistic technique of presenting to an audience common things in an unfamiliar or strange way so they could gain new perspectives and see the world differently."

I use Defamiliarisation to reconstruct and distort what is familiar in the bedroom, allowing us to see lives from a new perspective under this epidemic. It has changed our lives, but it cannot change our ability to acquire knowledge and insight.