Zarina Hashmi’s Letters from Home became a key reference point in this project. Her work, shaped by displacement after the India–Pakistan partition, expresses cultural homelessness through sparse maps, Urdu letters, and the ache of a home that no longer exists. Zarina’s practice resists any singular cultural identity; instead, it lingers in the in-between, revealing how […]
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Cross Years Visual Essaying
In this workshop, we learned the foundations of visual essaying. We were grouped together in pairs (I was paired with Neyomi) and we were tasked to write a quick essay of sorts then create a visual story board. Me and Neyomi decided to explore what Home meant to us as Third Culture Kids. We presented […]
An Interesting exploration of one’s self with Billie Muraben, designer and culture writer. In the crossyears workshop “Labour 3” we explore how to position ourselves as practitioners and designers in the form of writing. There were many examples that were given to use. Billie thoroughly explained how to write third person or first person bios […]
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Positions Through Essaying
This is the midterm assesment video essay created from the previous briefs in Unit 2: “I am Indonesian”. This essay explores the formation and mechanics of meaning through exploring a Third Culture Kid’s ambiguous identity of East and West, viewing it through the lenses of modernism, postmodernism, and christian triperspectivalism. Transcript of the Video:
Y1U2B2 POSITIONS THROUGH CONTEXTUALIZING Against eternal power struggles and cultural hegemony: Can Eastern and Western cultures form a relationship through communication methods? Annotated Bibliography and Written Response Gramsci, A. (1971) Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci. London: Lawrence & Wishart. The project started as a response against the narrative implied in the concept […]
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East ↔ West
Rethinking Cultural HegemonyConnecting East and West through Medicinal Packaging Aesthetics Initial re-exploration of Unit 1 Brief 3 Methods of Translating Project In Indonesia, we pride ourselves with a glass of Jamu, a traditional herbal elixir tailor made by mainly women to suit each person’s bodily needs. The elixir rejuvenates the body and heals various ailments. […]
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Cross Years Quilting
Quilting is used by black communities after learning it from white Americans during the slavery era. Many times in history, quilting has been used not simply as linen covering pillows or blankets, their flexibility to create became also a medium of protest. Protestors would create subversive images with the medium, often in large sizes. “Feminist […]
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Cross Years Labour 2
What do Massimo Vignelli, Kazunari Hattori, Bridget Riley, and Karel Martens all have in common? Using the multidimensional citation system, we can just find the thread connecting them! Labour is involved in creating everything we see today. Somehow, through acknowledging and citing the labour that led up to the successful careers these people had, unseen […]
Methods of Contextualizing Group Samuel Christopher NgEmily HowardZhang Yufei Tang (Bert) Jiabao Brief We examined a communication tool that we engage regularly, identified barriers that inhibit full participation of disabled/neurodiverse people. We attempted to reimagine the tool to enable broader participation. At the beginning of the project, each of us decided each of our own usual […]
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Methods of Iterating
Defining Randomness In this brief I explored p5js as a medium, subverting Zach Lieberman’s curatorial work in generative code. I took a critical inquiry into the concept and meaning of the element of randomness through experimentations and enriching meaning through different perspectival iterations. Week 2 In this second week I experimented on how random an […]