75unconsciousness=25imaginations+25memoreis+25desires
Design Research/Interactive Data Visualization/Screen-Based Interaction/Story telling
'75unconsciousness=25imaginations+25memoreis+25desires' retells the dream stories of people in a provocative screen-based interactive installation. Based on design research of dreams, it is not just visualizing people's memories, desires, and imaginations in their dreams, but demonstrating their inner voices through re-presenting, re-imaging in a metaphoric and poetic manner.
In this project, I tried to understand people's unconsciousness through their dreams. My research question was 'How do dreams encourage people to enhance their imagination and creativity or evoke inner desires, imagination and memory through their dreams?' So, I made 10 survey questions based on this idea and sent them out to people around me(they are from US, S.Korea, Taiwan, Germany, Mexico, UK, Spain, Japan, Russia and Italy)
Analyzation & Interpretation
These are their answers verbatim:
Memories(Past) - want to meet someone they love died(mother, father, friends, pets etc) in their dreams, going back to military, 오래전에 보았던 영화장면, blanket, movie, books, holding up seven-eleven and eating their ice cream, birthday present, falling of bicycle etc
Desires(Present) - robot, dad, ex-girlfriend, ex-boyfriend, talking with dead people, meeting celebrities, being with their favorite people, other spaces, more future of themselves, their future self in a successful business, having sex, famous designer, want to solve situations of daily life, change surroundings, playing basketball or eat, 꿈을 자주 안꾸는 스타일이라서 별로 바라는건 없지만, 성공한 미래를 볼수있음 좋지, want to see brad pitt, adam brody, justin timberlake, お金持ち, ジェシカ・アルバみたい, I dream I am rich drugs, sex etc
Imagination(Future) - teleport, superpower, ちょうのうりょく, magic, being ghost,, marry Scarlett Johansson, jessica alba as future wife, fighting with robot, remember more of their dreams, 面白く暮す人生, traveling over the world, flying, scuba diving, six fingers, flying with canadian geese, create world, chased by a huge monster,, watching dreams of others, 공간이동?, 순간이동?, killing people to survive in the jungle with swords and strange power, kissing gorgeous guy, pro soccer player, kill or killed by sombody, etc
As the next step of this project, I manipulated and analyzed the information I received from the responses. I wanted to allow people to have new experiences through the concept of time and space. Thus the title ‘MEMORIES IN THE FUTURE, IMAGINATIONS IN THE PAST’
According to my concept and design output, I am able to create a time line of the dream world. It is another space which parallels the real world. I demonstrated in my research that people’s memories are based on the synesthesia of the time and space and their experiences in the past. Nothing can happen outside of time and space.
As John Dewy said, our experience is the interaction between the organism and with its surroundings and environments. Thus, space can not be an empty, framed room, and time is not the succession of collected moments. There is always more than that.
Using this as a ground work, I switched the words 'memories and imagination' from the original expressions to evoke a different point…
Is it possible to have our favorite memories of the future in the present?
Do imaginations from the past makes sense?
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