1. Interior Behaviours
Bi Xia
Education:
BA Product Design, Central Academy of Fine Arts, China, 2013-2017
Professional Experience:
Space Designer Internship, Four-by-Two, London, 2019
Space Designer, GB Space Design, Beijing, 2018
Award
National Best Project Top 3, C Foundation, China, 2017
Loneliness is a societal health issue that can affect everyone and companionship shouldn’t be the only way to relieve it. We have been educated from a young age to participate in groups, people who prefer to be in solitude are seen as outliers often. All of them are subject to this bias that is implanted in our society and we all internalize it from a very early age.
Also, in the “Designed” world, we usually feel obliged to design socially engaging spaces rather than through improvement of quality in the very experience of being alone.
Solitude has become a negative state that people want to avoid. But it should be a natural, justified and equalized option and it could be an alternative way to eliminate loneliness.
I did not expect the “Social Distancing” will become a hot topic today, it was not my major concern in my project. But “Solitudism” will be a helpful project for reshaping the public space and people’s behaviour.
Grassland — Inspired by grassland
Hide Yourself In The Public Space — Solitary space
Perspective View — People are free to hide in like in a grassland
Plan View — The deeper you go, the more undisturbed you become
Loneliness is a societal health issue that can affect everyone and companionship shouldn't be the only way to relieve it. We have been educated from a young age to participate in groups, people who prefer to be in solitude are seen as outliers often. All of them are subject to this bias that is implanted in our society and we all internalize it from a very early age.
Also, in the "Designed" world, we usually feel obliged to design socially engaging spaces rather than through improvement of quality in the very experience of being alone.
Solitude has become a negative state that people want to avoid. But it should be a natural, justified and equalized option and it could be an alternative way to eliminate loneliness.
Loneliness is feeling alone and not liking it, it's a feeling.
Solitude is being alone and content, it's a choice.
If you can master solitude. You'll never feel lonely again. We need more space for solitude in the city, also in our lives.
I designed spaces that help people to master solitude.
In 'Grassland' people are free to hide in freestanding flexible cork-rubber partitions. Roaming between them is not easy, the deeper you go, the more undisturbed you get. When you choose a stool, wrap the partition around it by magnetic grain, you can enjoy disconnect and remain in solitude for a period.
