@michelamontedonico

Design, Year 3

21 years old

Milan, Italy

 

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

My daily life has radically changed: I live with a new conception of time that would be impossible in normal conditions. Most of my days I wake up at 2 pm, except for days when I have online lessons in the morning. I try to distract myself with some projects, drawing, reading and with never-ending video calls with my friends, trying to keep ourselves company in these days of loneliness. Dinner is my only meal; then, I swoop into the most tragical moment of the day: evening. I can't sleep, my mind is always on fire and I try to keep myself busy with some graphic works on my computer, watching documentaries and some boring series on Netflix to help me sleep, but it never happens before 4 am. The day after, I start again.

 

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?

It's extremely difficult to keep myself busy: before this quarantine started, I used to go out and take long walks to inspire me, searching for every clue that the exterior world could give me. But now, this is not possible anymore, so I tried to find an alternative way: watching a lot of documentaries, but sometimes it doesn't work.

 

What is your biggest fear right now?

My biggest fear is that our social relations would change until the point that we will never be able to shake our hands, to kiss each other, to hug each other... these are simple gestures that were a huge part of our habits, but I'm afraid that we will become a population of hypochondriacs.

 

What will you do once all of this is over?

I imagine a post-COVID-19 future as a new opportunity to re-organize an industrial approach that led us to a multitude of "zombie objects", as defined by designer Andrea Branzi, trying then to have a more focused look more on quality than on quantity.