Taking my family in the city and countryside of Taiwan as a case study, the project takes interest in the intangible features of living and aims to rethink the reciprocal relation between the human condition and the environment.
To establish a dialogue between lives in the village and the city, I invited my grandma to experience the urban, while I experienced the rural through her. Through this family journey, we illustrate the differences or rather the lack of them, between the countryside and the city, and thus challenge the myth of a dichotomy between two types of settlements: the village and the city.
Through Grandma, I rediscovered the countryside. But I wonder, what of the city can I find through her? And how is mom, living between us, different?
project presentation + film
Environment & Human Condition
Grandma's village_ Gukeng, Yunlin County, Taiwan
Rural Facades
Through our journey in the city, temple and village, I see the qualities that make a good life, and how humans shape lives beyond the tangible.
We care; we seek human interaction; we engage our surroundings with curiosity, faith and resilience.
