The view from your window may have lost its luster since the beginning of the pandemic, especially if you’ve looked at the same landscape since March. Then why not look out someone else’s window?
Swap windows on opens other people’s windows and allows the Internet to take a look at the view. This adapts to a popular respite for users around the world from the banality of isolation.
Visitors see random perspectives of other places, all filmed from inside the houses and their windows.
Footage is submitted by users across the world. There are babbling brooks in Bavaria, sunsets in São Paulo and a rainy New York from 20 floors up. No two views are alike, even when they’re filmed in the same place.
The founders of the site – the creatives of Singapore and the husband and wife duo Sonali Ranjit and Vaishnav Balasubramaniam – is their “quarantine project”.
Ranjit Campaign Asia-Pacific, a regional marketing and communications publication, which she and her husband had created Window Swap to “overcome [their] sadness.”
“Because, let’s face it, it’ll take us a while to step back and wake up with a new view from our windows,” he says. “In the meantime, why not search voyeuristically through someone else’s window for a while?”
It’s comforting to see other people severing their isolation days, if not a little jealousy (these expansie balconies! Live Breezes! Views for Miles!).
You can send your own view in a 10-minute series taken horizontally from the edge of your window.
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