The initial idea behind Before I Leave emerged from observing the experiences of “temporary residents”, such as international students, short-term workers, and people temporarily living abroad. Before leaving a city, what do they leave behind? Could the objects, traces, and experiences that are usually forgotten, cleared away, or discarded become the starting point for someone else’s new life in the city?

Based on this reflection, LOOMIE was designed as a transitional living system for students and short-term residents, rethinking the relationship between “leaving” and “arriving” in temporary urban life. Rather than treating leftover objects, spatial traces, and lived experiences as disposable remnants, LOOMIE transforms them into inheritable and reactivatable “urban survival resources,” allowing newcomers to connect with local life without starting from zero.

Within this ongoing cycle, departing residents leave behind fragments of their lives — objects, memories, urban experiences, and personal traces — which future residents can later rediscover, inherit, and reactivate through exploration. In this system, leaving is no longer understood as disappearance, but as a meaningful handover between strangers. Experiences, traces, and local memories continue to circulate among different people and across different timelines, gradually forming a unique “micro-culture” of sharing objects and lived experiences within the city.