Chen Lai
I am an artist and interior designer with a philosophy of sustainability and symbiosis. Since graduating from the Central Academy of fine arts, I see the future of interior design as a vehicle for bridging people and revitalising their lives, capable of influencing vibrant social and environmental relationships and profoundly affecting the way people work and live.
The interplay between our minds and interior spaces is just as important as that of our bodies. In the future the plan is to open up a series of experiments and designs on the world of the spirit of the self.
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The Millennium Dreams
Worldwide problems caused by COVID-19, isolation and strict epidemiological policies with no clear end point. To alleviate the nightmares and anxiety associated with isolation and an uncertain future, the Structural Dream Analysis (SDA) provides a systematic and objective analysis of the meaning of dreams produced by patients in Jungian psychotherapy, in which five main dream patterns are identified. Changes in the dream series patterns can be identified as corresponding to changes in the treatment. Thus, a space for individual and collective experience and therapy is designed by linking all participants of the same dream pattern and guiding the dream pattern towards higher order transformations.
Using the existing psychological and dream models (Red Book) to describe and design the five classic dream patterns, a dream guide refuge is designed to progressively move across the dream patterns to enhance the psychological structure and strength of the self.
The design goal is therefore to use the Red Book under the dream structure model for dream-related psychological guidance, thus helping the experiencer with dream pattern guidance or psychological regulation to reduce anxiety in the present moment related to an uncertain future.