Thesis Documentation
I created a system that can help people to know themselves better. Have
you ever felt like one of your greatest ideas was wasted? Or you feel you
are stifled by the normal life, and you have no answers to why your life
becomes more and more boring. The system will help you find the
answers and lead you to a more interesting way to live. My project will be
a story that allow people to discover the system by themselves. Maybe
they will be part of the story (I’m still designing how they can interact with
the story,) maybe they can change the result by making different
decisions. During this process, I want the audiences to learn the system
all by themselves, and because of the system is abstract, an immersive
experience will helps a lot(maybe I will design a performance project
using projection mapping.) I want the audiences to find out the system by
themselves, like reading bible stories during playing with it, and it will be
great to give them a chance to test it. This project need people to think
about it and connect it to their own issues. To achieve that goal, it should
be exhibit in museums or some serious exhibitions. Like religions need
temples, so people can release themselves, and know themselves better.
In my old plans, the project will ask the audiences to do some decision
making based on their own life experiences and what they learned from
the story. However, my new design requires the audiences to sit and
watch a performance work, I need to find a way to let the audiences to
interactive with the performers. I hope I can bring the audiences the
feeling of delighted, ashamed, smart, released or confused. Ultimately, I
hope the audiences learn the system, and how to use it to solve their own
issues.