The Unseen
Master Thesis
Location
TU Berlin
Year
2022
The Unseen explores a subject deeply relevant to its generation. In addition to drawing from external sources, the project delves into personal reflections, uncovering a connection between concerns about the future and anxiety disorder. Researching professional resources and personal blogs revealed shared experiences among young adults, while interviews with peers further confirmed the widespread nature of these fears and anxieties.
IDEa to Design
Transformatıon journey
All unresolved anxieties and fears seem to resurface—sometimes with the same intensity, other times growing stronger and more overwhelming. This experience took shape in the mind as a self-created maze, a structure with entrances and exits yet designed in a way that deepens the feeling of entrapment the further one ventures inside.
To visualize this concept, a rectangular maze was created, elevated above the ground to enhance its surreal quality, symbolizing the mind itself. Rather than solid walls, translucent gray fabrics enclose the space, representing the permeability of human thought. As one moves inward, black fabrics hang within the maze, embodying fears and anxieties, creating a labyrinthine path. At the center, a distinct material symbolizes the core fear—the source from which all other anxieties emerge.
The design and arrangement of these elements reflect the idea that this central fear can be both the beginning and the end of everything. Additionally, the space is structured to evoke feelings of entrapment and overwhelm, mirroring the disorienting and suffocating experience of an anxiety attack.
