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# Project Description Care Objects in Temporary Living Yanbing Wu Summary Final work Currently living without her cats, so she makes work that feels like them. Currently living without her cats, so she makes work that feels like them. College London College of Communication Course MA Design for Social Innovation and Sustainable Futures Graduation year 2025 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. Share this project 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... A link to this page has been added to your clipboard
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