Category: Intervention
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Plan of the second intervention
1.1. Programme Outline The second intervention is a series of workshops. The workshops have two part: podcast and art creating. Podcast part: Paticipaters are invited to record their own perceptions of family, the impact it has had on them, and what they think the perfect family would be. Create a sculpture of the ‘perfect family’…
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Summary of the First Intervention
1.1. Outlined The first intervention was carried out by asking about 35 participants of different ages to discuss a picture with 32 visual symbols, asking them to choose which ones came from the same family and to elaborate on their reasons. to analyse the identification of family symbols among different age groups in contemporary China…
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The First Intervention
Family Map I put objects, photos, and words from family and strangers together on the same image and invite all to choose which ones come from the same family and why. 2025.7.3： Ethan, My partner, 35 years old with a three year old daughter, is from western Hunan. 02, your name, 03 look out like,…
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Unit3 Overall Concept and Design
1.Research direction and research topics 1.1.Research direction Family heritage：Family heritage is a neutralized concept that simply outlines the physical, spiritual, and cultural influences that families bring to future generations.This influence can bring about very distinct differences in family identity, symbols, personality and other aspects for the offspring. Post-memory：Post-memory is a space of memory where emotions…
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‘Layered rocks: the archaeological site of a family’ program of works
This was the first piece I wanted to make, a piece where I wanted to present family history as archaeology. This will be able to show the connection between the individual and the family in a time dimensional way. I have divided the whole work into five layers, corresponding to five generations in China: the…
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Timeline-Unit3 6.15-8.31
Phase 1: In-depth Research and Concept Anchoring (June 15th – June 30th, approximately 2 weeks) Reading section: Preliminary “Family File” Collection: Phase 2: Fiction Building and Prototype Experimentation (July 1 – July 21, 3 weeks) Construct an archive of “fictitious records”: Phase 3: Production and Preliminary Testing (July 22 – August 18, approximately 4 weeks)…
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Information gathered on the family project and the progress of its production
1.Collection of family stories： This is a collection of 300 poems and stories recorded by some 37 literary figures of my family ancestry. Among them, the stories of the Qing Dynasty’s literal prison period and the Ming Dynasty’s resistance to the Japanese are more painful and heavy narratives, suitable for adaptation as game scripts. This…
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Creative Progress on the Digital Family Platform
Combining the habits of a large number of family members and considering the convenience, I created a small program (a program system that can be used within the WeChat system) in WeChat (the most used SNS software in China). This program can automatically generate a family tree by family members uploading their name, generation, age,…
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Why the current stage of family information dissemination is backwards
1.The main way nowadays： This is data obtained from interviews with 50 people from China’s Generation Z population.Oral history and books are still the most dominant methods of family history and family information dissemination. The disadvantages of such methods are: 1. having to be present or owning the books; 2. in the current era of…