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The Invisible Home

Speculative Design
Interactive Comic
Printed Booklet with UV Interaction
Produced for the course “Speculative Design,” Tongji University.
Collaborative Project
Position: Narrative Designer, Scriptwriter, Illustrator

Printed Booklet

The hidden lines gradually appear

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Overview

The Invisible Home is a speculative design project about the unseen in family life.
Presented as a set of short paper-based comic stories, the project uses a fictional form of invisibility to surface what is often overlooked in real families. Each story centers on a person or object that becomes invisible—still present, yet unreachable to the characters’ eyes. While the family can sense that something is there, only readers standing outside the comic’s world can reveal the hidden figures and traces using a UV light.

This contrast matters: by choosing to illuminate the page, readers see what remains unseen in the story until someone deliberately looks for it.

Concept

SEEING THE UNSEEN

Across many social media platforms, discussions about family life often use the term “invisible” to describe common situations such as invisible household work, invisible fathers, and invisible pressure.
These conversations resonated with us. In families, certain tasks, emotions, and roles are present yet easily overlooked. The home is both private and shared, making some issues difficult to express directly. They exist in daily life, but are not always addressed or clarified. Beginning with this idea of “invisibility,” we used speculative design to turn an abstract notion into a concrete condition.

CONCEPT DEFINITION

When Things at Home Started Turning Invisible:In a family of six — a mother, father, grandmother, two daughters, and a cat — strange things began to happen. Objects around the house would suddenly turn invisible. It started with simple items like food, pencils, and walls, and later even the father and the cat disappeared from sight.
As these odd events continued, the question became how the family would respond and what kinds of stories might follow when they had to live with something they could no longer see.

How Invisibility Works:

◦ Invisible things cannot be seen but still exist.
◦They retain their physical properties, such as weight, sound, and temperature.
◦ They can still be used normally.
◦ Invisible family members and pets can still live normally and be perceived.

Narrative & Visual Design

Interaction & Production

Story Showcase

Final Presentation

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