Concept
The two websites in this series mainly discuss the content of divination superstition. The first website researched the floor plans of houses through Feng Shui from China, and added interactive functions to the website. The second website compares two divination techniques (divinatory sticks and tarot cards) to determine whether people should rely on divination.
Target
Consumer age range: adult
Target audiences:
people who do not believe in divination
people who want to know different divinatory methods through the one they are familiar with
1st Website: Feng Shui of Floorplans
Inspiration
My first project originated from the recent experience of a relative who just bought a house. He hired a Feng Shui consultor for suggestions of buying house properties, and he finally chose the one that I thought was not as ideal. However, in less than half a year, he made a fortune from running a medical business because of the Covid-19 pandemic. He attributed it to his good Feng Shui house. I started to wonder whether the house can really change fate, so I started to study the Feng Shui of the houses and made it the subject of my first project.
Purpose
I try to explore the concept of Feng Shui through the lens of the advantages and disadvantages of different floorplans. This design intends to speak to the people who want to know how those so-call superstitious methods influence their daily life, and for the people who plan to buy a property and are interested in this aspect.
This design aims at not only warning the audience about the Feng Shui shortcomings that they need to avoid when buying a house but also helping them comprehend what kind of positive characteristics their new place should have had for living.
2nd Website: Discrepancy Divination
Inspiration
Extending from the first project, I began to want to promote the concept of Feng Shui from the perspective of propaganda. I learned that not many people know this divinable knowledge, and some even don’t believe that these so-called symbols or knowledge can symbolize their future. Thus, I start to prepare to explore different divination methods and their respective content, by the lens of showing their respective steps and divination results:
Is the divination process shocking?
Can the divination result accurately predict the final result?
By showing the process of divination and the results of divination, tell the confused people whether they should rely on these divination results.
Purpose
The goal of this work is to show the difference in the process of different divination methods. The objects of comparison are fortune-telling methods from the East vs. the West, which are divinatory sticks and tarot. I will record the process of my personal experience in the form of a website and put it together for comparison, hoping to explain the results of the two divinations and see whether they can predict the future or not.
