Find Urself

Wendy Lyu
Design Seminar
IRH 401
Instructor
Stephen Severn

Find Urself is a highly mirrored stainless steel structure, that aims to challenge the conventional ideas of how people perceive and interact with the built environment as speculative methods of existence, experience, and visual cognition. Sara Ahmed, in her book "Queer Phenomenology," describes disorientation as a bodily experience that arises when we encounter environments or objects that challenge our assumptions and disrupt our sense of familiarity. The main goal of this exhibition is to provoke a sense of curiosity and disorientation among people who interact with it. As people enter the structure, they will be immersed in a world of reflections and will be unable to distinguish between what is real and what is a mere reflection. The infinite reflections will create a disorienting effect, making it difficult for people to orient themselves within the space. Find Urself trying to make disorientation become a productive experience, allowing us to see the world from a new perspective and question our assumptions about what is "normal" or "natural." It also challenges the conventional notions of architecture and challenges the viewer's perception of space.