New Silk Road 2035: Exploration

Artists: He Yulong, Dong Sicheng, Quan Guoqing (School of Design)

Instructors: Wu Yichen, Wang Fei, Wei Wei

This graduation work sets itself against the landscape of exploring the New Silk Road in 2035 and creates a mobile setting of transborder exploration and exchange for youths in the future. A new form of transport system comprising onsite vehicles called "Constellation", a one-man vehicle "Valentines", and unmanned vehicles called "Mercury". The design concept of "1+∞" runs through the entire one-man vehicle. As a vehicle meant for outdoor exploration on the New Silk Road for Gen Z, "Valentines" allows the driver to traverse long distances in nature freely. Onsite vehicles serve as anchors along the Silk Road and provide maintenance services for the one-man vehicle. These anchors help youths of the new era as they weave a beautiful dream of exploring the unknown. Unmanned vehicles provide emergency sources of power and road surveyance services for other vehicles. The transport system satisfies the need for outdoor exploration and offers a new alternative for outdoor travel in the future. Gen Z youths shall walk the land, measuring its length with their own feet, and find themselves in nature.

Emotional Brewing

Creative Team: Zhang Rui, Hu Hanrui (School of Design)

Instructor: Guo Jinyong

"Emotional Brewing" is a creative cocktail brand concocted by the creative team. The brand is unveiled to the public via a pop-up concept store and will be run on a long-term basis under a singular business model in a curated commercial space. The brand offers businesses a new solution to overcoming the new wave of commercial challenges in the post-pandemic era. Its distinct RGB palette and shifting 3D cocktail models are a visualization of the clash between human emotional and commercial values.

ZEEKR UTOPIA: Interior Design Concept

Artist: Zou Hanyu (School of Design)

Instructor: James B. Hope

Luxury is freedom − that is how the artist has redefined luxury. In our dreams, we are free. We are the masters of our dreams. In ZEEKR UTOPIA, smart virtual environmental and interior design is used to allow the user to escape the stresses of life, create their very own unique dreams and relax in the immersive experience.

Fragments of Civilization: A Futuristic Digital Cultural Journey

Creative Team: Gao Jie, Pan Xixi (School of Design)

Instructor: Guo Jinyong

The creative team translates and reimagines Jinyun's（in Zhejiang province) local cultural DNA as a digital space for cultural tourism. A 1:1 digital model of Jinyun's scenic site called Shidang was constructed via laser scanning. Historical records on Yellow Emperor and local myths are incorporated into the space, breaking the boundaries between space and time and elevating the cultural impact of this cultural tourism project via digitalization.

Space Balance

Artists: Zhu Jin, Yu Xinning (School of Design)

Instructors: Wang Yun, Zhang Junjie, Chen Yunjia

With technology advances, space travel has become accessible to the public. However, there remains room for improvement when it comes to the human understanding of and physical ability to adapt to space travel. That is why reducing the risk of motion sickness during spaceflight has become a pertinent challenge. Space Balance provides motion sickness desensitization training via VR headsets and integrates technology, training, culture, and travel within a single program. This program assists everyone who aspires toward space exploration. The training leverages virtual reality sickness and three sensory modalities to simulate different types of vertigo. The program also simulates settings, interactions, and the atmosphere in space, offering users an immersive, educational, and enjoyable sci-fi gaming experience.

Physical Limitation

Artist: Zhao Xuge (School of Design)

Instructor: Tao Yin

"Physical Limitation" continues the study I conducted in a Year 1 elective course on physical perception. I wanted to study the differences in human behavior and personal space that are exhibited during non-conventional everyday activities. I did a series of experiments on human behavior that is centered on fashion. First, the subject's elbows were bound to a wooden pole. Next, the subject was instructed to remove their clothes. The different outlines formed by the clothing during this process were documented and formed the silhouette of the new clothing's design. The series of human motion was translated into 2D images, then converted into 3D images again. The final product is made of inflatable fabric, which wraps around the human body and reveals the relationship between human behavior and space.

Happiness Mapping

Artists: Zeng Deqian, Peng Qianxilong, Zhong Jilong

Instructors: Fang Shuhong, Zhao Chenyin

Happiness is like a spill of sunlight. They are similar, yet different at the same time. Happiness Mapping is a project centered on social happiness and the distribution of happiness. It explores the factors contributing to happiness and employs a multifaceted approach to drive discussions on happiness, encourage people to share and promote happiness, and identify the emotional connections between individuals. In the natural world, light is a phenomenon that cannot be seen nor touched. But in certain environments, it shines and reveals its innate and unique colors. Like light, happiness, as defined by different individuals, produces different outcomes. Everyone has their definition of happiness.

The Iron Moon: A Worker's Poem

Artists: Chen Zhiyu, Yu Zhuoying, Xie Xingyu (School of Design)

Instructors: Shi Jianhang, Bi Xuefeng

Workers are the pillars that drive societal transformation. Besides being the source of manual labor, they are also the creators of an immense volume of poetry. Their poetry is realistic, contemporary, unique, multifaceted, and astute. They are rich with life experiences and have the ability to move their readers deeply. The Iron Moon: A Worker's Poem is an anthology of poems that encapsulate the perspectives of the Chinese worker. Written in simplified and traditional Chinese, English and French, it is a project that promotes transcultural understanding. Through audiovisual recordings of poems being recited, the creative team employs contemporary visual language to convey the key message of the poems and create resonance with viewers, achieving the objective of bridging translingual borders and reaching out to different groups.

A Digital Parallel Hangzhou City Series

Creative Team: Zhu Tianying, Zeng Zining (School of Design)

Instructor: Guo Jinyong

The Digital Parallel Hangzhou City Series is an online innovative project based on Hangzhou's iconic sceneries. Augmented reality technology is adopted to create an online virtual "digital Hangzhou". By integrating abstract ideas with a virtual space, the creative team attempts to establish Hangzhou's branding as a city with alive historical and cultural heritage.

About BRAIN GARDEN

Brain Garden – The 5th Zhijiang International Youth Art Festival 2023 & CAA Graduation Season kicked off online and offline concurrently on June 1. This edition of Youth Art Festival is co-hosted by Zhejiang Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education, Zhejiang Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, Publicity Department of the CPC Hangzhou Municipal Committee, China Academy of Art (CAA), and Zhejiang Conservatory of Music under the guidance of the Publicity Department of CPC Zhejiang Provincial Committee and Hangzhou Municipal People's Government. The festival features a wide variety of online and offline artistic shows and activities centered on the future and the youth. It is a grand city-wide artistic feast in Hangzhou.

The Youth Art Festival is presented online on CAACOSMOS and West Lake Sky Screen and offline at six venues, namely Zhejiang Exhibition Hall, West Lake Art Museum, Zhejiang Art Museum, World Tourism Museum (1368 Xiangxi Road), Quan Shanshi Art Center, and Yichuang Town, with a total exhibition area of nearly 70,000 square meters. Over 3,000 works from more than 2,500 Class of 2023 graduates (including 1,766 undergraduates, 688 masters, and 97 doctors) are showcased. Over 2,000 young artists, designers, writers, and scholars have gathered online for this youthful art event.

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