Headspeace
  Interface
  Redesign
 “AllKnight”
Comic Con
  Echo
Curtain
 “Absence Approved”
Gallery Installation
“CrimePartner”
Night &Cosplay
  “Suffocated Love”
“AllKnight”  Comic Con
  Echo
Curtain
Lotus
  “Suffocated Love”
Experience Design
     Echo           Curtain
  “Anime’s Rise”
Data Visualization
  “Anime’s Rise”
DataVisualization
   Echo    Curtain
Squeak”UX Interface
  “Suffocated         Love”
  “CrimePartner”
Experience Design
      & Curator
“Suffocated Love”
Experience Design
  “Suffocated        Love”
Echo Curtain

Experience Design                           Interface Design                          Graphic Design                     Jennifer Qian

Absence
Approved



“Absence Approved” is a participatory installation that utilizes the cold, rigid aesthetics of bureaucracy to formalize "negative space" in human connection, such as missed encounters and unanswered messages, transforming private regrets into a collective, "officially" validated archive.



What About It:
We are often documenting "what happened," but I am interested in those moments that “did not happen."
In simple words, the absence should also be recorded.


How:
Through an extremely rigorous and cold bureaucratic approval system, the project “Absence Approved” seeks to confer a physical legitimacy and collective recognition by personal regrets.



Gallery Installation:

During the Show:


Samples From the Pending Wall:
Design Choices:

Form Design:

- Structure: Organized into Info, Reason, and Plea to imitate the hierarchy of government petitions.
- Archival Details: Uses watermarks and file-number transcription to emphasize institutional permanence.


Validation Systems:

- Visual Synergy: Stickers are designed to create a cohesive dialogue with the red "APPROVED" stamp.
- Administrative Tone: Diction mimics the detached, clinical language of the official state certification.



Curatorial Logic:

- Spatial Hierarchy: "Pre-seeded" forms are placed at a higher eye-level to establish archival order
- Grid Experiment: A 5-form-per-row layout tests how participants navigate and claim space within a rigid administrative grid.