Collaborations are exciting and fun, and they stimulate creativity; however, they’re not always that perfect during the process. Before we came to study in the UK, we didn’t have many opportunities to collaborate with others. During the lockdown, both of us felt depressed and we lost our motivation to make work, so we decided to work together!

This project was a wonderful experience. Together, we made a podcast, we painted with homemade natural inks, made collages, and created both a digital and a physical book. We made a website that documents all the different ways that we collaborated in order share this experience with the students in our home countries- Taiwan and Japan.

We added playful interactive elements and online workshops into the website to engage people and stimulate further collaboration. When people see how healthy collaborations look from our website, we believe their collaborations will be more successful!

Mai Nakajima

‘For me, making this collage art together, and then cooking after we finish work is the happiness I get from this collaboration. Where is your happiness coming from?’

Louise Hung

‘umm… Spending time using my brain to think and having deep conversations with you during this COVID pandemic is happiness.

I like the feeling of confusion, but we find out the answer together. Although often there wouldn’t be a correct answer, we can always find a solution and the motivation to move on.’

That is happiness.’