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Monash Art, Design and Architecture Student Exhibition 2022

Jiaxian Jiang

I am a bold experimenter who tries to integrate space and humans with each other. I have realised that when "play" becomes a daily routine in our life, we often ignore the lack of play of another group when we are faced with various patterns of it, even though this ignoring is not intentional. Imagine someone who cannot hear, they can’t hear all kinds of different sounds in the city. I have tried to design a way to allow people that cannot hear, a place for themselves in the community. I think this is a space of real play for those people who have hearing impairment, a way of living and socialising that they may have never experienced before, but a real way of facing socialisation.

IN THE CITY

People in the city, play in the city, as they merge together in a data-driven grid of colored environments and black and white people, showing how sound ties them together.

WHO IS PLAYING ?

Different groups can play together, not limited to a variety of conditions and venues, play is play, a kind of equal play for all.

EXPLORE – VENUE

Explore the city grounds to discover the shapeable nature of the city and explore the places to play in the city

SOUND-COLOUR ?

Turning sound into real colour in the venue, so that this colour can be truly experienced by those with hearing impairment.

WORLD-COLOUR

The use of bone conduction devices in reality is like turning a real venue into one virtual world after another, and then turning this virtual world into a social space where everyone is equal.

MANIFESTO

The declaration for this place is based on the foundation that this space should achieve an anarchist act based on the equality of all people

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