In Adaptation
Project 1: The Art of Adaptation
This project requires us to select a chapter from Invicible Cities by Italo Calvino, read and describe the story and the ideas extracted from the story using mind-mapping. And then, we are expected to creatively adapt the story by way of painting the graphical/visual representation
A3 Painting:
Project 2: Observing The Everyday
The purpose of this exercise is to have a deeper understanding of the city in which we inhabit but do not necessarily seek to understand, Kuala Lumpur, and her greater surroundings but that of an objective standpoint in comparison to personal subjectivity. Our task is to identify an area within KL or Greater KL to study and carry out examination and observation on the growth of the area relating to Italo’s description in the chapter. And then, we were asked to record and document your observation using nine strong images of the site to describe our findings.
Project 3: RE-SYNTHesized An Experiment
In brief, this project is about the exploration of an adaptive process between the imaginary and the real, and non-physical and the physical. It stretches further the idea of ‘adaptation’ in the style of how a film maker would overlay an imaginary (utopian/dystopian) city into the real space.
Based on Exercises 1 & 2, we were asked to identify the issue that contributes to the significant characteristic of the city as narrated by Calvino. A storyboard proposal is structured revolving on how the city changes through time if the issue is unresolved through projection timeline of predicted situation in 25 years, 50 years and 100 years from now.
Reflection
Throughout this module, I've learned how to observe and relate my cities to the narrative in Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino in Project 2. I've also learned to put those imaginations to life by creating an artwork relating to the chapter I've learnt in Project 1. Last but not least, I've learned to combine my ideas in the last project to come out with a projection of the future and what is to come by using photoshop in Project 3. In conclusion, In adaptation makes me think out of the box and create something unique for me to realize in my city.
