Laura Crugnola
NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti
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Product Design, Year 3
21 years old
Varese, Italy
How has your everyday-life changed? What do you do to fulfill your day?
I have to say that after a month being in lockdown I got use to it, even if my everyday life has changed drastically as I can not go to Milan or I can’t see my friends everyday.
Somehow I gained something from this situation, I started doing exercise at home, I started reading more books and magazines, activities that I couldn’t do before because of the lack of spare time or just because I preferred to spend my spare time in other ways. For my mom happiness I also started helping her cooking and taking care of the house. Let’s say that planning a new routine helped me a lot even though sometimes instagram affects it.
Your work is built on creativity. While we’re all in quarantine, what is your solution to keep on being creative? Where do you find your inspiration in this moment?
The solution is to keep your mind working, reading, researching, it is fundamental to get inspiration from what surround you even if we are at home. Young people have to understand that this is not a holiday and that we are not at home to sleep all day long. This is an occasion to see things in another way, it is not easy being at home all the time but we have to use this time as better as we can. Even cooking, plating, rearrange the furniture in your house could be creative activities to keep your mind busy.
What is your biggest fear right now?
My biggest fear, as the one of many people right now, is that people I love could get the virus. My grandmother is 95 and my parents are immunosuppressed, I would never hear them among people infected on the tv news. The fact that they are healthy and safe thanks also to my sanitary precautions stimulates me to stay home and to protect them.
What will you do once all of this is over?
Yes I am trying, I am also including this topic in my thesis project, especially for the travel issue, I love traveling and the fact that before we will be able to fly to new cities/places makes me sad, so I am trying to figure out how it will be in a couple of months/ a year.
I know it can sound obvious but I hope people won’t be egoistic as before and that this experience will help all of us to not underestimate what surround us, we need to be more respectful and conscious about people and about our planet. Furthermore I hope that the drop of pollution will let companies figure out what sometimes they cause, and it will led to start again in a more conscious and ethic way.