Qing Duan
Qing Duan is a London-based spatial designer and interior architect working across space, installation, and visual narrative. Her practice investigates how spatial design can bridge scales, stories, and systems-from the collective conditions of human life to the intimate connections between psychological and physical space.
With a focus on reusing and reinterpreting existing structures, Qing often engages with overlooked corners, thresholds, and soft enclosures. Her projects combine material experimentation with quiet observation, creating environments that are intimate, layered, and responsive.
She holds a Master's degree from the Royal College of Art and continues to explore how spatial storytelling can offer alternative ways of inhabiting the world.
This collection explores space as a site of emotional memory, autonomy, and quiet resistance. Rooted in personal experience, the work reflects on the act of finding refuge within constrained domestic environments, where privacy is denied and emotional safety must be invented. Inspired by the life cycle of the sunflower—which stops following the sun upon maturity—the design speaks to a shift from obedience to self-determined presence. Each piece reinterprets thresholds and overlooked corners as places for care and redefinition. Developed through intuitive spatial thinking, material testing, and narrative animation, the work captures the moment when a body, a space, and a story begin to align.
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