'Life Within Walls' Exhibition

Mental Boundary | Uncovering space, time and state of mind

Project type: Exhibition design, Communication design, Architectural Topography
Location: Cologne, Germany
Date: Dec 2018

How can a map visualise the nature of a subjective topic in a substantial manner?In this project I envisioned the mental states of chronic loneliness as a material for the term of invisible border, in order to render the core idea of how the life within ‘walls’ is under the context of psychological influence.

Loneliness is a prevalent urban phenomenon that often hidden and yet has the power to segregate people from their surroundings. Emotions/Feelings/ and Self Awareness were used to portray the relationship between time and space in a domestic unit within the urban sphere. The geography of loneliness visualised here was being mapped out to serve as a non-scientific and non-medical manifesto to emphasise and uncover how mental boundary is not less separating than any other barriers.

Mapping a sanctuary of loneliness

For the research part, I explored specifically in a profound and personal way by researching through anonymous blogs and several in-depth interviews with a few people I know personally who had experienced intense loneliness and even depression. Then I reflected the relationship between their lives and the space of those who are affected by this mental phenomenon and visualise it in a graphical manner

Specific area of an apartment are being used for a deeper psychological purpose, of which answered to different state of mind of the residents. I chose photographs that reflect how emotions manifest itself into an action inside each spaces.

Frequency of usage in different rooms was visualised by a heat map that is analyzed by a conversation with an anonymous that used to live with someone with intense loneliness and depression.

The Exhibition

For the research part, I explored specifically in a profound and personal way by researching through anonymous blogs and several in-depth interviews with a few people I know personally who had experienced intense loneliness and even depression. Then I reflected the relationship between their lives and the space of those who are affected by this mental phenomenon and visualise it in a graphical manner.