Room with a View — Google Arts & Culture

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Art created from a window

What happened when students around the world were forced to down tools and stay at home

Finding Creativity in a Crisis

Guest curator Amira Gad explains how students found new ways for exploration and innovation to shine through

Hear From Quarantined Students

The students on how they found space to create

The way they see it

A collaboration with the Arts Council England

The Art Made By Young People Over Lockdown

Five weeks, five organisations, five creative challenges

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Home becomes the studio

Discover what inspired the students to create at home, through themes selected by Amira Gad

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1. State of Emergency

Facing the unknown

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2. Work

Adapting to working from home

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3. Time

Time slows down

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4. Nostalgia

Looking into the past

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Care

Self-care is key

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6. Longing for the Outdoors

Connecting with the outdoors

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7. New Perspectives

Seeing things in a new way

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8. Reimagining Space

A fresh perspective on home

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9. Tomorrow

Artworks that look to the future

"Room With a View is a testament to creativity born out of adversity"Amira Gad

The students who kept going

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Lockdown through a lens

Watch video artworks created by students while at home

Epidemic Loneliness by Umberto Baldacci

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Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna

Comprovate necessità by Saladin Faroudi

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Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna

Virus by Sara Guerinoni

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Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna

Indoors by Lorenzo Natuzzi

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Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna

Bathroom by Leonardo Lomurno

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Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna

Facing the unknown

Amira Gad picks artworks from the project on the theme of 'A State of Emergency'

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Entropia by Giorgina Della Porta

Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna

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Punti luce by Alessandro Martufi

Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna

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Wash it Off by Teona Burkiashvili aka Teo Burki

Central Saint Martins

Adapting to working from home

Amira Gad picks art on the theme of 'Work'

Time slows down

Amira Gad picks works on the theme of 'Time'

April Clouds by Ela Ertan

Edinburgh College of Art

Waiting by Charlotte Nadeau

Edinburgh College of Art

Flowers by Zhengwei Li

Central Saint Martins

18:00 by Roberto Guerinoni

Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna

Artificial Amber by Yang Li

Central Saint Martins

Viola by Daniele Fugarese

Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna

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Looking into the past

Amira Gad picks works on the theme of 'Nostalgia'

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The Great Important of Whim by Tanatsei Gambura

Edinburgh College of Art

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A Sad Evening by Siyuan Ma

Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna

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What's Inside by Michela Degioannis

Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna

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Watch Una Vita Sola by Bianca Di Lella

Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna

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OO4K by Samson Shepheard-Walwyn

Central Saint Martins

Self-care is key

Amira Gad picks works on the theme of 'Care'

Connecting with the outdoors

Amira Gad picks works on the theme of 'Longing for the Outdoors'

Limited by Alicia Chana Escapa

London College of Fashion

Companionless by Alicia Chana Escapa

London College of Fashion

Windowed Trees by Izzy Schreiber

London College of Fashion

Scorci in quarantena 2020 by Pavlo Mykhaylin

Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna

STARING OUT by CHIEH-LIN WU

London College of Fashion

Balcony and chill Balcony and chill by Anjali Vaswani

London College of Fashion

Is The Cloud Touching My Face? by Abby Wright

Central Saint Martins

WINDOWISWORLD by Valentina Crispino

Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna

Peace is color by Giorgia Fiorio

Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna

Suspención by Luca Sainz

Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna

Scherzo#5. La Città Comunica Alla Casa by Donato Di Schiena

Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna

Lieu phare by Clémentine Doumenc

Musée des Arts Décoratifs

Gioia Expanse by Petra Errico

London College of Fashion

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Seeing things in a new way

Amira Gad picks works on the theme of 'New Perspectives'

The Bull by Gabriele Melegari

Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna

If you're tired of your view, can you paint a new one? by Maria Cecilie Wrang-Rasmussen

Edinburgh College of Art

viaduct by Jody Mulvey

Edinburgh College of Art

Gloomy Day by Chien-wei Yu

Edinburgh College of Art

Reflection from my Window by Tobias Francis

Edinburgh College of Art

Light From Within by Lorenzo Rangoni Robertson

Edinburgh College of Art

No Place Like Home by Esme Plumb

London College of Fashion

Laer Block by Yang Li

Central Saint Martins

Landscape N.1 by Elisa Matteoli

Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna

La Morte ferma il Tempo e indica il Luogo by alentina Palmisano

Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna

A fresh perspective on home

Amira Gad picks works on the theme of 'Reimagining Spaces'

Artworks that look to the future

Amira Gad picks works on the theme of 'Tomorrow'

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10m² 10m² by Yan Xiong

Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna

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VIS_ [2020] by Ayshia Taskin

Edinburgh College of Art

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Imprint ii by Emily Seville

Edinburgh College of Art

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Observation at Home by Jiapo Chen

Edinburgh College of Art

Behind the scenes

The Head of Edinburgh College of Art explains how the project came together

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Meet the Head of Art at Edinburgh University

Linda O'Keefe explains how the school responded to the project

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