The world is like a never-ending nesting doll, each layer containing stories, memories, and experiences. As we navigate life, we instinctively create our own containers—spaces to hold our thoughts, emotions, and belongings. These containers come in various forms: tangible, like a toolbox or a vase, or amorphous, like the warmth of a letter from grandma filled with love and care. We inhabit spaces with our presence, shaping them with stories, music, and laughter. Yet, beyond mere containers, this book embarks on a journey. It delves into the intricate formation of communities and examines our perceptions of public space. It seeks to unravel the threads that unite us, exploring the social practices that foster development and exchange of knowledge as the most valuable unit in modern society.

A journey of comparison, mixing realities and twenty six thoughts. Inspired by the spring season at India Point Park in Providence, I connected the tangible shapes of the newly formed dandelions with the intangible thoughts shared by my friends, developing a theme of duality. This exploration resulted in a publication and a three-minute video, reflecting the delicate interplay between physical and metaphysical elements.

The initial inspiration for the “Migrants” is to destabilize human scales — both spatial and temporal — as the dominant plane of reference and emphasize biological and technological micro-agencies. The project’s principles emerge from ideas about simplicity, naturalness, and accepting the realities surrounding us. By “looking closer,” we can reveal what’s hidden and learn more about the world we live in.

v.1 is a publishing platform for the ongoing work, ideas, discussions, debates, and aspirations of students at the Rhode Island School of Design. Its form and content are endlessly flexible. In this issue of v.1, we (re)emerge amidst the clamor of Spring. We wander through themes of mapping, objecthood, growing pains, and critiques of frameworks that were once thought to be chiseled in stone. Essays delve into death and rebirth on Mount Fuji, musings on chicken-coop-core, roadside Americana, a search for a “cartographic counterexample,” and the power of THAD to mutate the canon. We learn what is up with dealing found objects on Instagram, the many (many) ways to think about process-based work, the warp and weft of Indigenous storytelling, and other sparkling stones collected along the way. Designed in collaboration with Brianna Chiu.

Project explores the nature and ways of gathering, while experimenting with formats and visual communication. Divided into three acts (Act One: cleaning the space and turning it into a grid, Act Two: family gathering, and Act Three: community gathering), it touches on the topics of collective knowledge and the importance of its accessibility to the local communities. How do we organize communities in a way that operates as a body, and how do we use industrial spaces as a bridge between knowledge and those who carry the knowledge? Due to alienation in societies, the decentralization of creative communities, and the inaccessibility of real estate to younger generations, there is an urgency in a dialogue between those in power and those in need. In these series of events, I am attempting to visualize the alternative "Third spaces," serving as a middle ground between work and home while building a sense of belonging using Graphic Design as a tool. The body of work builds towards the inception of an event space by experimenting and transforming an industrial warehouse in West Providence, Rhode Island, as an invitation for communities to gather and activate the space. In this work, I am doing this by organizing conceptual events and performances and inviting various artists.

Bar Woods is a speakeasy bar and music platform showcasing local talents and promoting unique and original new artists. It is a personal project developed by me as part of a Cultural Center located in a post-Soviet factory. I had the freedom to experiment with visual communication, event formats, and structure, which allowed the project to stand out and become one of the most popular and influential bars.