- CollegeLondon College of Communication
- CourseMA Design for Social Innovation and Sustainable Futures
- Graduation year2025
This project explores how emotional care is created and carried within temporary living environments. Through auto-ethnography and participant conversations, it identifies beds, pets, and soft companions as key emotional anchors. Two design outcomes translate these insights into tactile form: a hand-spun cat-hair textile that materialises multispecies intimacy, and an interactive pop-up book that invites readers to touch, hold, and share everyday gestures of care. Together, they show how portable objects help rebuild belonging in transient spaces.
Final work
Pop-up Book — Cat Page
This page of the pop-up book represents multispecies companionship. The rotating hand invites a gentle touching gesture, echoing everyday moments of care. It visualises how pets shape emotional comfort in temporary living.
Pop-up Book Interaction
This video presents the interactive pop-up book, which contains three themed pages: the bed as an emotional anchor, a companion animal, and personal comfort objects. Together, these pages translate experiences of care in temporary living into a tactile, visual narrative.
Cat-hair Spinning and Knitting Process
This video documents the transformation of cat hair into a hand-spun and hand-knitted textile. After cleaning and carding the fur, it is spun into delicate yarn and then knitted into a small swatch. The process materialises multispecies intimacy, turning everyday grooming residue into a tactile reminder of home.
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Care Objects in Temporary Living
This project explores how emotional care is created and carried within temporary living environments. Through auto-ethnography and participant conversations, it identifies beds, pets, and soft companions as key emotional anchors. Two design outcomes translate these insights in...
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