Cube Lives

In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, 200 students who had been accepted at EUC moved from their home country and hometown to a new environment. They were all given an identical studio to live in for the rest of the year in a student building.  Throughout the year, each and every one of them had been personalized differently, reflecting a part of who the homeowner was. A blank cube turned into a colorful canvas filled with random items found along daily walks in the city, memories of talks with fellow stranger students that soon turned into friends, walls decorated with snapshots of loved ones and sinks filled with dishes of past dinners with corridor mates.

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Though there were common spaces within the building, all students were found isolated in their rooms, sitting behind their desks watching the faces of corridor mates on a zoom call grid. Every cube was a closed environment filled with emotions, thoughts and experiences built around this isolated lifestyle. 

Four confined walls and a person. Each completely different yet intrinsically related to the next door one.

 

This project aimed to break down the walls of separation and open the doors to channel the stories of others in the hope for any student to be able to relate. 

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