Life Designer with Jingyu Chen
Capturing once in a lifetime moment and each encounter is one of a kind and unique. Life designer is looking to genuine and meaningful human connection, and telling candid human stories. In each episode, I will interview an amazing talent coming from all around the world across all different industries. They are artists, creatives, professionals, entrepreneurs, slash everything, and they are all on their journey to pursue their mission with a passion. It's their story-telling about how they become their own life designers! Please feel free to visit my website to find more information: https://www.lifedesignerwithjingyuchen.com/
I am also running my solo podcast ‘Jing Lens’ -- my lifestyle diary . Here I share daily hustle and grind, small joys from my travel and hobbies, exercise routine, self-care practice, and reflection on my personal growth, etc., I consider Jing Lens as my dynamic diary to document and capture evolving and ( hopefully elevating) journey of my lifestyle. Lifestyle is a bit overkill buzzword today but I have always been drawn to this word, spending years and years searching and building my lifestyle. I guess I finally reach this self-validation point to feel may be able to to share some mindset and practice from an ordinary person’s life to provide one possible form of wholesome and joyful living.
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Life Designer with Jingyu Chen
Special Episode: My 2022 Home Project
I started my 2022 home project which somehow extends its scope into renovation, interior design , decluttering and organization from last June around. It was probably my biggest project in 2022 which grounds me on a very deep and personal level.
It was over half year of hustle, stretching my creativity, mentality , even physical strengths to a new level. My architect friends said they see my potential in interior design. I guess even I may get slight bit of sensitivity in styling or something , I still got overwhelm just by the idea of doing interior design in some scale from 5 to 10 years down to road . Because interior design is so deep. I was so intimidated by it , now a tip of iceberg is revealing to me. My respect for architects and interior designers are also being taken into next level . I just don’t know how much hard work and intense learning it will take to reach that professional level.
I guess I just need to follow my heart at my pace. Right now I am at informal/ self-taught level of learning. Over the last half year, I immerse myself to listening to hundreds of podcasts related to interior design and watched Tons of AD YouTube videos, ended up taking a whole notebook of notes. All of sudden, I become keen to dig into texture, material, color Palette , architectural structure, each aspect can be an independent discipline. It’s a new language system I am learning which depicts aesthetic , value and existence of life that I gravitate towards.
As an interest-driven person, I just feel so grateful to encounter this new hobby in 2022, and is willing to sit down still to learn the foundation. I vaguely sense that Interior design will offer me a new perspective and lens to restructure the physical space , reframe the way of thinking, reconnect time and space, it’s just I see music, life, and flow in architecture and I am so obsessed with that feeling.
Interier design are trials with endless learning curve and triumphs. I am often uplifted by musicians’ music, someone's kind words or share of people's inner art . I hope my share can bring a bit joy / enegery or a bit sense of hope ( even just for a moment) for my audiences. That's why I consider it's meaningful to make this episode.
This episode do need some visual navigation lol so feel free to visist my Website to listen with photos attached for my living room.
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Interior design shouldn’t be a race towards finish line and something you can pull it off at recorded time so you can show off to your friends. it’s a evolving and ongoing journey.
Home should be the expression and extension of inner self. When you are curating a sense of tyle in your place, you are also curating a sense of belonging and acceptance. Home should be a place fills you with joy and happiness and be the ultimate sanctuary.
I agree we can train our designer eye and elevate our taste through intentional learning and massive exposure to art , but interior design is never be as easy as just replicating a beautifully curated home from the catalogue to become yours. To be able to emotionally connect to a physical space, I think eventually it comes down to being authentic to yourself.
Function comes first. Style shoud support its function.
Music makes time pass, and architecture make space into meaningful form..no..I mean architecture make music stand still, here time turns into space.