Ethnographic Research
Continue the linguist survey over language and identities, expand to include more open ended questions over experience.
Design questionnaire for the collection of how Culture 3.0 establish the profile of newly acquainted people under different circumstances (ex. mono-lingual, multi-lingual, peers, elders, professional, local, and etc., to name a few.)
Speculative Designs
How does a “bridge of activation” look like? What does a space where everyone feel equally uncomforatable in look and feel like?
Beyond conventional understanding of a space for conversation, what are someunexpected and unlikley waysto add stimulations into spaces of activation for equal communication?
Can this stimulation be done through a form of design writing, perhaps accompanied by sound activiation?
Environmental Designs
A version of Rauschenberg's ROCI project.
If I ask people of multi-culture exposure and upbringing to reflect on a visual or a word that they would situate themselves in, what will those elements look like? Does time change the answers? How will one beside the subject be able to immerse in it and experience it?
Transformation Designs
What are some ways to trigger a change in perspective? How to bring to one’s attention not just the knolwedge that everyone is biased, but to truly shift them out of their comfort zone for a moment?
Most importantly... for this not to be just a theory and talk, what are some tools (think Bruce Mau’s 24 Principles, or Slow Design Handbook. What are some other ways?) that can be made for people to use?
Further Literature Reviews
"The Philosophical Baby", Alison Gopnik, 1998
- "移動的世界史: 從智人走出非洲到難民湧入歐洲, 看人類的遷徙如何改變世界!" ([rough translation] "Mobile World History: from Homo Sapiens departing Africa to the refugee wave into Europe, see how human migration have changed the world!"), Tamaki Toshiaki, 2020]
"The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable", Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2010 (revised edition)
- "The Intersection of Culture and Achievement Motivation", Elise Trumbull and Carrie Rothstein-Fisch, The School Community Journal, 2011, Vol. 21, No. 2
"Gertrude Stein and Richard Wright: The Poetics and Politics of Modernism", M. Lynn Weiss, 1998
- Curnutt, Kirk. “Inside and Outside: Gertrude Stein on Identity, Celebrity, and Authenticity.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 23, no. 2, 1999, pp. 291–308. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3831927. Accessed 23 Apr. 2021.
Kate T. Anderson & Steven J. Zuiker (2010) Performative Identity as a Resource for Classroom Participation: Scientific Shane vs. Jimmy Neutron, Journal of Language, Identity & Education, 9:5, 291-309, DOI: 10.1080/15348458.2010.517708
Semiotics the Basics, Daniel Chandler, 2007 (second edition)
The Present Tense of Space, Robert Morris, The MIT Press.
and more ... open to recommendations.