# Project Description

A phone call to the past

ZISHUN WEI

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I’m a designer focused on positive human experience and the interaction between people and objects through a gamified approach.

I’m a designer focused on positive human experience and the interaction between people and object...

College Chelsea College of Arts

Course BA (Hons) Product and Furniture Design

Graduation year 2025

This project is about the emotional pressure and anxiety that many students face when graduating and stepping into society. It focuses on the feeling of liminality — being in between two identities, no longer a student, not yet fully part of the adult world.

The object is a handmade telephone, shaped from aged copper wire with a ceramic base, placed on an old wooden desk. It connects to an AI system that allows the user to talk with an AI, representing a talk to oneself. This setup creates a private and reflective moment, like a small ritual, where users can process their thoughts, hear them back, and slowly build a clearer sense of who they are becoming.

Through this process, the work offers a way to deal with change, to speak with the self, and to find emotional grounding during uncertain times.

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This project is about the emotional pressure and anxiety that many students face when graduating and stepping into society. It focuses on the feeling of liminality — being in between two identities, no longer a student, not yet fully part of the adult world.The object i...

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