Xin Yan

In 2050, after the rise of Me-ism, Post-Me-ism started to emerge. The Generation Beta teenagers were born and grew up in an environment where human beings have only the tiniest amount of social interactions (physical). In Me-ism times, although most of the people can live in the way they wish, living as individuals but not family or community brings problems as well. For example people never could learn basic social skills through experience; the absence of emergency contact; one parent family balancing time between self and children. There are things better to do with some help, and people choose to use Attaché as the helper. 

People create robots as another version of self to get help with daily life: Attaché. Also, every baby is born with an Attaché as a friend, babysitter, monitor and even teacher. Attaché keeps the side of the owner all the time to fulfil every requirement. However, this fake production can not really emotionally replace another human being, which leads to the start of Post-Mesim. Generation Beta teenagers who grow up with robots started to wonder:“ Where and how to make friends offline? What’s it like to have interaction with real people?”

There are 2 human and 3 Attachés living in the Attach house. Human Jessica with her 2 Attaché Jessie and Jess, Jessica's biological daughter Elizabeth and her Attaché Beta.

I’m Xin Yan, an interior designer from China.

After graduating from Pratt Institute I came to Royal College of Art to continue pursuing my dream. I consider humans and the state of their mind as the most important things when designing a space, all the shape, material and colour combinations are the outcome of humans, our reaction to reality. In the future platform, I am working on building my own scenario and design based on that.