need to think of more activity that allow me to bring people of different generations together
highlight the stakeholder and learning, document the process with experts, like interview, their feedback, and try to highlight the learnings from the conversation that I had
Very different festivals around the world, which are about mask wearing people design their own masks, people wear mask and go out into society and there rituals around mask wearing one of the famous ones in Europe is a festival in Venice, which is about mask query. Looking into the ritual and the culture of designing masks, and making masks and using them as a way to hide your identity be someone else as a form of therapy as a form of, communication as a form of art as a form of developing your own identity or a new identity based on this mask that you design.
when as I am doing this, as I am developing the digital story. Just try to take one step back and think of, what the intention of this office intervention is, what I am trying to achieve, but try to be very clear about it, and then as I am engaging my users in the development of these digital stories. Make sure that they’re helping me answer some of these questions that would allow me then to build a next intervention and continue to develop my project forward.
get in touch with my stakeholder, to ask them, if it’s possible for them to invite their families or parents or whoever, to help me carry out my intervention
if the parents do not engage with me, think about what could I do as an alternative that would allow me to continue developing my project, I need to think and have a backup plan, and what next my intervention can be
based on the last feedback, I continue to develop my interactive video, and I collected some real example in the real life, because real people and real example are more convincing.
here is three example:
example 1:
name: yuhui huang age: 28 fashion designer she was forced by her parents to go on a blind date about five times, but she has not met a suitable person so far, and her parents said that she must marry this year, because they think 28 years old is old for women and the fortune teller said this year is her wedding year, and she is very troubled and does not know how to communicate with her parents. she think that It is impossible to meet the right person in this year, so she decided to move out instead living with her parents.
example 2:
name: waner chen age: 26 insurance She has a boyfriend, but her parents are dissatisfied with her boyfriend, because the fortune teller said that her boyfriend has many female friends, and he is likely to cheat after getting married, so her parents want her daughter to break up with her boyfriend . She is very entangled now. On the one hand, she likes her boyfriend, on the other hand, she doesn’t want to go against her parents’ meaning, and she is also a little superstitious in fortune telling.
example 3:
name: dasen age: 29 medicine He has a girlfriend, but his parents are not satisfied with his girlfriend because the fortune teller said that his girlfriend will bring bad luck to his family, but he insists on marrying his girlfriend. As a result, less than a month after the marriage, his father was diagnosed with leukemia and passed away two weeks later (his father was healthy and showed no signs of illness), and his father’s company also closed down.
and I also did some research on psychology, and I found that one therapy is drama therapy. Drama therapy takes a unique approach by using drama or theater techniques, including improvisation, role-playing and so on… Drama therapy combines drama and psychotherapy methods to offer new ways to express what you are thinking or feeling in order to cope more effectively with behavioral and emotional problems
It is intended to help participants explore their inner experience and break them out of any rigid roles or frameworks they have been limiting themselves to. They can express themselves while sharing a new side to their personality
drama therapy can also benefit participants by providing them with the opportunity to:
Express their feelings Tell their story Act out/work out issues and problems Achieve emotional and physical integration Experience catharsis Develop trust Work out relationship issues Strengthen or expand their personal life roles
Role-Playing
Role-playing allows the participant to alter their mindset, act out in new ways, and connect their own experiences to those of another person.
Here’s an example: if you’re having significant conflict with your parents, you may be asked to role-play a scene in which you pretend to be your parents and speak from their perspective.
I think it can help people explore their inner experience and break them out of any rigid roles or frameworks they have been limiting themselves to.
I think drama therapy can help young generation to communicate with their parents better, and learn to look at problems from the other side’s perspective.
NEXT STEP:
I will show these real example to people and get some feedback from them, What they think of these example?
I will combine these example with drama therapy. How to apply these real example to drama therapy? What techniques in drama therapy?
focusing on now is to find ways on how to investigate your question through interventions, so don’t think what will be in the end, don’t look right now at the final outcome
start with a smaller intervention to basically test with a target audience with these two generation, instead of producing the whole video to a high standard and making the actions
starting to only test the concept: write a script and write sort of like a skeleton outline of what would become the video to what would be in there what should be seen.
write the script for that scene, and then get people to read it, or someone to read it out, stakeholder or target audience, they listened back or they watch that sort of just a reading of it, and they give their ideas and input
just test those conceptual ideas with my participants as a stakeholder
psychological studies
mediator
social media would be quite an impact in that as well, how that brings conflict or war
According to the feedback I get, I will explore counselling and the techniques that counsellors use mediation and the techniques that mediators use when dealing with conflict and dealing with different groups to support my project.
After presenting my research for Project 5 – The Change I Want To See… in my tutorial, I have developed a series of next steps to take, as a result of analysing and reflecting on the feedback I received.
FEEDBACK
They are interested in people’s attitude for the difference in attitude. young people and parents whoever is a versatile narrative narrowed to their parents term of their view o love, what they think love is what, whether or not there is an overriding practical concern. Whether loving considered important at all, in regards to matchmaking, and it seems that the key person, or the key stakeholder or the key bridge in my project is the matchmaker, because they are the intermediary, that gets to speak to both parties. The two people who are being matched, it seems to me that my challenge is one to do with challenging traditional attitudes, there will be a group of people who may be value those more traditional more conservative, and then there will be those who freedom to choose for themselves, whatever path there is, but then I have this kind of societal barrier, and it’s gonna be interesting in terms of how to deal with unpacking.
They suggest that look at a specialism, that might help, and also explore counselling and the techniques that counsellors use mediation and the techniques that mediators use when dealing with conflict and dealing with different groups, Because I think from what you’re saying, the mediation element, or the Matchmaker is probably the most important person in all of this. I have the wishes of the of the LP, that want to get married on the other wishes parent, but the Matchmaker is key, because the method could be the person with the power to say to the parents, the thing is that whatever decisions the parents want to make, traditional, conservative values whatever is the people getting married that has consequences. So there is an argument that they are the most important people, because they have to live whatever decision is made. And if it’s the wrong decision, they are going to have to pay for it, emotionally, physically in terms of time and effort. So, it might be that my project is more about getting the parents and the older generation to understand the younger generation, maybe it’s more weighted in favour of the people who have to live with the decision.
This project has come from my focus I possibly should be helping married people or the person being in a position to get married, make the right decision and to not be forced into making the wrong decision. And the project is focused around that possibly understanding around that. Trying to get the people who are being pressured to understand the position that they already lived in, in terms of societal context that they’re in. Before to do something that will have a devastating impact on their lives, Potentially. I think I would possibly focus on the matchmaking element of it as possibly the ethical intermediary sort of decision making position as the person who speaks to both sides to help with that.
NEXT STEPS:
Further engage with stakeholders how to plan to get the parents, child, marriage choice, or objections, and how to get people to engage with the older generation their parents whose point of view?
Explore counselling and the techniques to deal with conflict
Focus on matchmaker and explore how to reduce the conflict through matchmaker?
Consider the position of my project as a researcher, where are my positioned in my project? In terms of the people getting married, the parents to view and the matchmaker, where do I see myself?