@lucreziabellandi

Product Design

22 years old

Milan, Italy

How has your everyday-life changed? What do you do to fulfill your day?

My daily life is completely different now, since I was not used to spend so much time at home. Following the first days of sadness due to the enormous change, I re-discovered my home and the many activities that I left pending in my "normal life". Though it's true that too much time also allows me to read and listen to music, stuff that I did before too, but that now I'm able to do with a different perspective, not contemporary to some other things but giving it the more attention I can. Even my relationships with people have changed, video-calls replaced going out with my friends and despite that's difficult to accept, I think that it pushed people to listen to each other with more attention, without any other distraction.

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?

Crisis always lead to difficult situations in which problems can be an inspiration for new projects and ambitions. In this time, I'm living in a house that I was just starting to decorate; when the quarantine arrived, I found myself living in a home with other 4 people and just 3 beds, one stove, no shelves and not even a sink in the kitchen. Given the situation, we had to adapt and create objects with other objects to fulfill our purposes: it's been very stimulating, especially for a person like me studying product design.

What is your biggest fear right now?

My biggest fear is that the crisis will continue even after this period, because it will have serious reflections on ourselves and on our works. This pushes me to desire for the re-opening of any activity, but on the same spot I don't want to start my life back as it was and forget what this quarantine taught me.

What will you do once all of this is over?

I see a post-Coronavirus future as very frenetic, with everybody running here and there to catch up with their lives, school and work. I'm a student but also a worker, so it will be a stressful time - but at the same time it will feel like freedom when we would finally come out of our houses.