Week 4 | Creative Direction

Project title: In Search of Memories
Project objective: To inspire young adult surveying their own past to increase their life satisfaction through their personal story

Keywords:
Self-discovery      Life review therapy        Satisfaction of life     Nostalgia  Autobiographic memory     Collective memory

Research question:
How’s life review theraphy can be served to increase the satisfaction of life?How are the autobiographic memories can be turned into collective memories?
How memories are being recorded in a tangible way?

Existing Relevant Works
1) Reminiscence Box

2) Back up the memories of Taipei


Creative Direction Framework


Digital Publication
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Illustration


Feedback
1. Be mind of the purpose from the memory
2. Try more layout on publication, B/W photography reconsidering?
3. How to show the object inspiration in illustrative book?
4. Bilingual?

Week 3

Visual references
1) 從前從前‧我記得
也許不是迷戀過往的美好,而是害怕這些美好,一旦遺忘了,就永遠記不起來了。
有了這些美好的記憶與勇氣,我們就努力而開心地,一起往前走吧!

2) Farrer Park – Rhyming Verses from a Singapore Childhood

Illustration exploration
1) Hand-drawn 

2) Digital illustration

After consultation

– Think of the emotions to bring up the lesson, i.e.:loss of something
– Serve nostalgia as a reflection
– More details can be added into the illustration
– Write up on memories with two languages
– Map out three deliveries of books clearly. Digital illustrated book (showing key features), Printed publication, The journey of visiting the past memories
– Think of the sentimental object to associate with the installation, three final deliveries have to be linked together