Intercultural Design
11.1.2023 - 18.1.2023 (Week 1 - Week 7)
Teo Javin 0349352
Illustration and Visual Narrative/ Bachelor of Design in Creative Media
/ Taylor's University
Project
Instructions
Figure1.1
Project 1
We were tasked to make a proposal of ideas, backed up with research and
create a final product that reflects our understanding and
interpretation of Visualism - Visual Culture.
Figure2.1 Research Proposal
Figure2.2 Research Proposal Final
After some feedback, we tried to make our research questions and
generally, everything more specific so it would make gathering
information much easier.
Data Collection Day 1
We arrived in Japan. This was my first time travelling independently to
overseas so there was no doubt I was excited to experience this trip.
However, nothing much really happened on Day1... We landed in Haneda
Airport at around 11pm and went to settle down in our hotels and were
told that curfews are at 12am, but being the rebellious kid I am, me and
my friends explored the area around our hotel for hours. >:D (Totally
did not regret the backlash tomorrow). Me and my groupmates arrived at
the hotel later to plan our agendas for tomorrow and the following
days.
Figure3.1 Streets in Japan
Data Collection Day 2
I woke up to the first morning sky in I've seen in Japan at 9am and
started our data collection journey with my groupmates. First off, we
went to Sensoji Temple as our first destination.
Figure3.2 Sensoji Temple
We roamed around the marketplace looking for one of our data
collection objective - Omamori! We found the main temple and there
were stalls beside it, selling Omamoris with various colours and
patterns. We also went to get some Omikuji (fortune paper) for fun and
that made my day.
In the evening, we went to our next data collection site, The Oji Fox
Parade Shrine. However, something looks off... For a "Fox" Shrine,
there were ironically no fox statues in our sights.
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Oh... This is a regular Oji Shrine without foxes. We went to the wrong
shrine, so much for being a great tour guide. Luckily, the Oji Fox
Parade Shrine was only a block away. But, it was closed (9pm). We
travelled miles to visit a closed shrine, only to cheer ourselves up
with a hot bowl of ramen to end the day. :(
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Data Collection Day 3
We headed to TeamLabs Tokyo for some visually stunning and
interactive experience. There were flooded rooms, river-looking
hallways, bouncy ball-filled rooms and many more crazy stuff. It was
refreshing that we did not need to worry about our data collection
while in TeamLabs, the scenery and rooms are also mesmerizing, you
would wish to stay there and just admire the beauty of each room.
After that, we went to the Diver City Mall for some refreshments.
There was a large-scaled Unicorn Gundam statue in front of the mall
to promote a big Gundam-only store in the mall. It was probably the
arcades and the gundam store that kept us in the mall for the whole
day, that we forgot about our data collection task.
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Data Collection Day 4
We visited 2 museums, the 21/21 Design Sight Museum and the Mori
Art Museum until afternoon.
Figure3.8 Mori Art Museum
That was where we left off to our next data collection site -
Toyokawa Inari Betsuin, an Inari shrine in Minato City. We took
pictures of the Inari statues and tried to understand every
descriptions written on the shrines with Google Translate.
Data Collection Day 5
Our final data collection site is a Yokai Museum all the way at
Chofu. It features an author's work of different youkais, it was
even made into an animation series! We took pictures of different
youkais and its description, and planned on what can we do with
these information.
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To end the day, we went to Akihabara explore, but we missed a
stop and decided to take a detour, we arrived minutes before every
shops in Akihabara closes, so we planned to revisit Akihabara
tomorrow.
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Data Collection Day 6
On our final day, we went to Akihabara and Shibuya, bought many
souvenirs and enjoy ourselves since we've done all our data
collection.
Compilation for presentation
We had one day to compile everything we got on a google slides
presentation for feedback. We met up with Ms Anis and Mr Azrizal for
our presentation and they agreed with the Omamori idea. Ms Anis
suggested that we design an Omamori based on Taylors'
superstitions.
Figure4.1 Data Collection
Final presentation
We had one day to compile every information we had into a poster.
Lee Ren, Fadhil and Nurul were in charge of making the poster
while Glen, Enya and I were in charge of designing the
omamoris.
Figure5.1 Final poster (PDF)
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