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Ruo Du
Anime Pilgrimage

I am a designer who specialises in spatial design and believes that any design with boundaries can be called interior design. I like to create lovely projects and am interested in the relationship between architectural space and people’s emotions, especially the influence of social sciences such as psychology on architectural space.


I enjoy straightforward and simple designs, often seeking inspiration from film, animation and games, and am not limited to spatial design, preferring to incorporate the relationship between graphics and product design to break down boundaries.

My final year design started with a bookshop and blue door in Notting Hill, London, exploring the impact of video media and people’s memories on architectural space.


I then travelled to 355 King’s Road in Chelsea, London through the Japanese anime K-ON! This prompted a research question: How can shared memories be evoked through physical objects and spaces in Japanese anime? People travelled to an unknown location, such as an ordinary residential building in Chelsea, London, as a result of a Japanese anime. It’s called ‘Anime Pilgrimage’.


What happens in this context as gentrification progresses and the place becomes a landmark?

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