Hong Kong intergenerational relationships are getting worse in recent years. Many young people & parents feel helpless when they are in conflict. They will choose to evade each other. However, this behaviour estranges their relationship even more.Shall We Talk is a training game which helps young people & parents to learn the skills of managing daily conflicts. While playing the game, it will enhance their interactions and communication with each other. It can help them to understand each other’s thoughts & feelings, so to build a stronger relationship.Unlike other existing design solutions, we believe that conflict can make your relationship stronger. It's because conflict doesn’t make the relationship bad; how people manage the conflict does. Our design solution focuses on helping people to prepare for the conflict instead of helping them to avoid it.
Love has always been a tough topic, especially for young people. The Hongkong federation of youth groups interviewed over 3000 people in relationships between 13-23. We found that most of them argue with their partner 1-3 times a month and their sources of relationship advice are often unreliable.Wave is an interactive visual novel that helps young couple with communicative issues. The whole system includes a hologram bottle for each partner and the application. The bottle detects emotion changes in the user and visualizes it holographically. It can also receive hologram activities. The app displays emotional changes of both partners and supports mini-games and exercises, virtual rewards, and personalization options.
This is a narrative project explores the correlation between ""The Unity of Heaven and Man"" and ""The alleyways in Kowloon Walled City"", depicting how an ideal imaginary metropolis could be formed based on the complexity of alleyways, and interpreting certain kind of human activities that could be held in such a nature-humankind creation.
“The Unity of Heaven and Man” is a traditional Chinese philosophy, which highlights the fundamental significance of nature to human affairs. ""Heaven"" represents ""nature"" and ""god"", while ""Man"" refers to ""humankind"" and ""society"". It is also interpreted as four spatial features in this main concept, which includes Tree-like Extension, Hierarchical Levels, Enclosure and Semi-Openness. A whole new vision of a continuous space is shown under the tectonics of WUXING, a form of ancient Chinese geomancy, which includes wood, fire, earth, metal and water, and represents specific seasons for each zone, provokes a certain order and different activities.
Love has always been a tough topic, especially for young people. The Hongkong federation of youth groups interviewed over 3000 people in relationships between 13-23. We found that most of them argue with their partner 1-3 times a month and their sources of relationship advice are often unreliable.Wave is an interactive visual novel that helps young couple with communicative issues. The whole system includes a hologram bottle for each partner and the application. The bottle detects emotion changes in the user and visualizes it holographically. It can also receive hologram activities. The app displays emotional changes of both partners and supports mini-games and exercises, virtual rewards, and personalization options.