I am passionate about the interesting connections that occur between natural elements, materials and space. Churchill once said, "We shape our buildings, and afterwards, our buildings shape us". Based on the functional spaces in which people live, I am committed to exploring the language of creating spatial atmospheres that allow spaces to communicate with people in a spiritual way.
Feast by the Seaside
In 2009, the documentary "The Cove" revealed the shocking fact that the Japanese government was hunting dolphins on a massive scale, with more than 30,000 dolphins hunted for traditional food and animal shows every year. The project works to change the experience of eating dolphin meat. If traditional culture is hard to shake, I wanted to make people feel uncomfortable when eating dolphin meat and watching dolphin shows, so as to reduce or even stop the consumption and over-hunting of dolphins.
Eating Experience
I was inspired by the neo-futuristic dinner, deconstructing the five human senses - sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch - making them independent and then finally uniting them.
Technical drawings
Spatial Experience
Before and After Wearing the apparatus
'Movie of Apparatus'
The first step is visual, the device has a VR glasses screen, when the visitor takes the dolphin meat, the screen will play a visual of the dolphin being captured, with the visual stimulation of blood. The second step is sensory, there is a device connected to the visitor's ring finger, when the device senses that the meat is touched there will be a small needle prick to the consumer's finger drawing blood, this pain is connected to the third part of the sense of smell, the blood is delivered to the device above the nose, so that the smell of blood is close to the user's nasal cavity. The fourth part is the sense of hearing, the headphones will start to play the dolphin's scream.
In the spirit of reconciliation Monash University acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
