Lisa Invernizzi
Politecnico di Milano
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Fashion Design, Year 3
22 years old
Monza, Italy
How has your everyday-life changed? What do you do to fulfill your day?
At first I thought it would be more difficult and boring to live without being able to go out, meet friends and people I love. Surely this period made us look at things from a different perspective, starting from university courses attended online up to video calls with friends. Any kind of physical relationship has been interrupted but the mind continued to travel. It is certainly an excellent starting point to reflect on our goals, where we have arrived and where we want to go. It was not so difficult to find something to fill the days, I've used this period to carry on my projects, write my thesis and decide what my future will be.
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?
I think creativity can be found in everything that surrounds us, every small detail can be surprising in its own way. This period offers us the opportunity to look at things in different ways and to reinvent ourselves. Even in negative times like this you can learn something, it's up to you to find inspiration to always create something new, through photography, art, design. If we are denied the journey, the discovery of new environments and experiences we must find other ways to do it through the imagination, observation and the expression of ourselves.
What is your biggest fear right now?
I really hope that once all this is over, we will not stop thinking about what has happened and we will not forget what really matters.
What will you do once all of this is over?
Certainly this period has left its mark on each of us and has led us to reflect a lot. Personally I have gained awareness that I did not have before, for the first time in my life my freedom was taken away and I understood how much it matters. I think that as soon as all this is over we will start over our lives but with more enthusiasm and the ability to be surprised even by small things.