Cluttered Minds, Crowded Spaces !

Muskan Ranka

Summary
Final work

I’m a designer interested in how our everyday living spaces shape the way we feel. For my final project, I focused on the emotional weight of clutter, fast fashion, and overconsumption, especially in small urban homes like the ones I’ve lived in in Mumbai and London.

Through personal reflection, spatial experiments, and lots of digging into my own habits, I explored how objects pile up, why we hold onto things, and how this chaos affects our mental well-being. My work looks at ways design can help create calmer, more intentional spaces, and how small changes in behaviour, like repair, care, and conscious ownership, can shift how we experience our homes.

This project is my attempt to understand the relationship between space, stuff, and the mind, and to rethink what it means to live meaningfully in compact, crowded cities.

I’m a designer interested in how our everyday living spaces shape the way we feel. For my final p...

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CollegeCamberwell College of Arts
CourseMA Interior And Spatial Design
Graduation year2025

This project traces a personal and spatial investigation into how fast fashion, impulse buying, and shrinking urban homes generate emotional and mental pressure within everyday spaces. It began with observing my own room: its piles, patterns, and the quiet exhaustion of managing too much in too little space. The research revealed a deeper issue: the cycle of consumption, rather than the objects themselves, was the true source of clutter.

The repetitive rhythm of buying, discarding, and replacing kept the room in a constant state of imbalance. As these observations deepened, the focus shifted from organising the mess to uncovering the behaviours that sustain it.

This progression led to a more purposeful intervention: The Repair Station, a small, intentional space that encourages mending, reusing, and caring for belongings. It offers a pause in the cycle, reframing repair as a grounding, everyday practice.

Final work

1:5 scaled prototype of my final proposal of a portable repair station.

The predicted Future

This film visualises my imagined future and shows what could happen if my design is fully realised. It explores how the portable repair station might shape everyday life, encouraging repair, care, and more sustainable living.

All the possible ways to use the portable repair station

The portable repair station is designed for versatile use. It features multiple functional platforms, including a folding desk and pull-out platform, allowing users to adapt the workspace to different tasks. This modular design enables the station to be customised for various repair activities, making it efficient and practical.