Deconstructing the new media era, are the richness of human experience being continuously narrowed by these four key paradoxes - the symbol craze and the language poverty, the convenience of connection and the cultural isolation, the overabundance of senses and the lack of experience, the revival of traffic and the disappearance of historical roots.
I am a student majoring in speculative design/ topic design. I want to create a series of works with the theme of "New Media Era". Centering around the four themes of "language - memes, symbols, network culture", "boundaries - the life of the network-using group in county towns and what changes have occurred", "food - the five senses of people: visual food within the screen and food streaming culture", and "environment - the popularization of historical districts and its destruction and revival", I will explore the dangerous boundaries and development possibilities of society, as well as commercial trends. The design should go beyond mere phenomena and directly address the systematic "dangerous boundaries" - when commercial logic becomes the sole meta-narrative, the richness of human experience is being continuously narrowed. Please give me some divergent thinking ideas to help me have a deeper understanding of my project.