Feedback (from Jess)_26 Oct

1\ Communication question
How can participatory design communicate culture shock?

2\Summary
I want to explore how communicate the different stage of culture shock through participation, and also achieve empathy from Chinese international students.

3\Method
Participatory design

4\Objective:
To research what is the participatory design.
 Summarize other people's theories/ examples/projects (to support your view). 
---> my view:  Participatory design (3 important elements)

1. design work(art work)
2. specific environment
3. audience's interaction/ participation

                        The theory of participatory design:
                                 You're the audience.
                                 You're the designer.
                                 You're the design work.

5\A view from primary researches

• Many people never realise that they are in "culture shock".

                                    -----"I don't understand.
                                           what the fuck is culture shock?"
                                    -----"Don't doubt, you're in it." (A frog in the well.)
Ps: "A frog in the well" is a Chinese traditional story. A frog alway live in the well. However, he never realize that he is in it. He thinks that the shape of  sky is like the mouth of the well.

Background:

Culture shock includes two concepts like “culture surprise” and “culture shock”. (This view comes from Fiona who is the course leader of presessional English course at University of the Arts London.)

In surface level aspect, experiencing different climates, foods, languages and dresses belong to culture surprise. In deeper aspects, we suffer from different social roles, rules of behaviours and values, which can be called “culture shock”. Culture shock most of the European students suffer from is in surface level aspect. The extent of the change and the effects it has on you may take you by surprise not shock. But this also belongs to a part of culture shock. 

Here a point --- ‘some people don’t realise they are in culture shock’  from my interview. Not all culture shock are the negative things. 

With the first typographic 'culture shock' poster, I attempted to express that I don’t exactly understand the definition of 'culture shock'. Indeed, some people think ‘culture shock’ is equal to ‘culture’ + ‘shock’. It should enable them to feel shock. As the result, I collect some words they said to show my poster. (The small print may at first strike one as extreme.) But substantial evidence exists to proof this phenomenon during my research. Furthermore, with my second typographic 'culture shock' poster, I crossed off the definition of culture shock I found on the book. It intended to appeal people to think what culture shock is. I did more researches to answer me. I selected the first person on these posters.  Because I wanted to ask audience this question as well. "Do you understand what culture shock is? Do you know something special experience of Chinese international students of culture shock? "The 'frog in well' image doesn’t just focus on Chinese people inspire of the fact that this is a transitional story from China. This is an experiment, which I wanted to do something less literal. The audience didn’t need to hear this story before; you can understand that through a flip-book. All of us can realise that the frog in well on the last page of a flip-book. I selected two images: first one and last one of flip-book to show on that 'frog in well' poster.