In collaboration with Dee Kim

By choosing a non-place within the physical space, challenge was to gather data by analyzing two chosen spaces to surface the unseen, unspoken, and unknown that lies within the mundane places.

Fitting rooms are provided in a semi-public circumstance to enable people to try or change clothes in privacy.The rooms are compartmentalized so that people can try on clothes to determine fit before making a purchase. By investigating the type of garments left behind in the fitting room, we wanted to identify personality, personal style and taste of a person who was in the room.

Dee and I created a character who regularly visits fitting rooms and checks out other peoples' choices of clothes. We were able to analyze eight types of identity from different fitting rooms. When Dee was acting as a character, she experienced the empathy that people would feel when they try their clothes on.

Fitting room works as a creative space, a place for expressions that can only exist in a private space distinguished from the street. This became a self-reflective journey leading to an investigation. Our own narrative from the study became data just as much as the size of the clothes.