In Adaptation

Project 1: Art of Adaptation

Learning Outcome of this Exercise
Learning outcomes assessed in this exercise include:

Critically analyse a theme or subject matter from an artistic mediums.
Source, cite and discuss themes and references from fields related to the current and contemporary context that are significant in re-telling of stories.
Re-present the story in a graphical approach based on the contemporary context of time.

Tasks Methodology
Your task is to observe the city and her people and document your findings in any of the format options.
Select a chapter from Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino.

Read and describe the story and the ideas extracted from the story.
Creatively adapt the story by way of graphical/visual representation.
(model with dimension of 15cm x 15cm x 15cm; or painting on an A3 sized paper)
Take photo of each work for Portfolio Submission.

The chapter selected is Cities and Eyes.

Brief Description of the cities:

Valdrada: City is mirrored, symmetrical but not balanced. The values mirrored are not necessarily the same.
Zemrude: It is the choice of the person to perceive things the positive way or the negative way. The negative however dominates overtime.
Baucis: Different points of view will have different perceptions.
Phyllis: People usually admire the beautiful elements in the beginning but get used to it overtime. That is when they realize the ordinary surrounding that has existed since the starting.
Moriana: Humans display the presentable part of them on the surface but hide the ugly parts at the back. It is just a point of persepctive to discover the whole of everything.

Attached below is the presentation board that we prepared:

The black city translates to the vague outline that a tourist sees from afar. The human represents the citizens and the drawings of the cities on top represents the two perspectives of the city that can be interpreted by the citizens themselves. The dull colored part reflects the negative and ordinary part of the city and the colorful side reflects the positive and beautiful part of the city.

"Every individual's persepective differs. Whether to look at the glamorous surface or to look on the dirty rusty obverse. It all comes down to a matter of perception on imperfection."

Project 2: Observing the Everyday

Objective of Exercise
The objective(s) of this project are as follows:
1. To create an objective observation of the people and society of a specific area within KL
2. To draw analytical inferences from informed yet authentic observations
3. To be aware of the difference between forming an assumption and making an informed
conclusion

Learning Outcome of this Exercise
Learning outcomes assessed in this exercise include:
1. Critically analyse the Greater KL
2. Use appropriate materials and methods of research in the process of observing the Greater KL

SLIDES!

Project 3: Re-SYNTHesized An Experiment

Learning Outcomes of this Project

Apply learnt skills and techniques in an exercise of creative adaptation (video/model)

Tasks Methodology

The students' task is to translate and adapt the essence of Invisible Cities into the context of Greater KL.
1. Based on Exercises 1 & 2, identify the issue that contributes to the significant characteristic of the city as narrated by Calvino.
2. Structure a storyboard proposal of how the city changes through time if the issue is unresolve. Make a projection timeline of predicted situation in 25 years, 50 years and 100 years from now.
3. Identify the projected timeline to be visualized as a dystopia or utopia city.
4. Produce the creative adaptation using the appropriate tools and references that you have identified in your proposal.
5. Produce a 250-word post-production text explaining the elements translated in your short and why it is appropriate/relevant with accurate references and citations.
6. Visualize your idea through any media as you wish to best resembles the scenario.

The site chosen is Petaling Street which is a very old street also known as Chinatown in the olden days. It is located in the heart of Kuala Lumpur and is frequently visited by tourists all over the world every year.

Presentation slides introducing the site and the issues discovered:

Synopsis of my issue and my interpretation of it in the coming 25, 50 and 100 years

Final Presentation Board