With exploring the surroundings, an intriguing thought came to me: Is it possible for humans to create a form of life that doesn't rely on human existence, but can directly live in the natural environment?

After some contemplation, I settled on the theme for my project: The Interaction Between Artificial Life and Nature. Based on this theme, my objectives to address include: determining the basic constitution of artificial life, understanding how it can harness energy from nature, and exploring the modes of interaction between the artificial life and the natural environment.

It’s a project based on Energy Harvesting, utilizing electricity to create a magnetic field that drives a substance called ferrofluid, aptly named "Black Slime" due to its appearance. This ferrofluid responds to magnetic fields and exhibits visually appealing behaviors. Drawing inspiration from slimes in fantasy, which are known to hide in shadows, the "Black Slime" reacts to surrounding light levels, adjusting its behavior based on brightness variations.

Paper Folding, as a traditional craft, is widely appreciated. I have attempted to combine conductive ink with Paper Folding techniques to explore the possibilities of paper art in the technological era. This work leverages the properties of magnets, making the connection between positive and negative poles simple and reliable. Users can easily integrate the origami pieces into the scene through simple magnetic attachment.

My choice of "secrets" as a themestems from curiosity about what a piece of information, an idea, or a secret means to an individual and to others. As communication between people becomes increasingly intimate, the internet has captured a vast amount of people's secrets. Yet, individual secrets are of little significance to those who control social media behind the scenes, but they constantly affect our inner selves. The project plans to conduct an experiment to record and observe people's attitudes towards their own or others' secrets. During this process, the content and information shared by the users will not be documented. It will serve merely as a window, an attempt to delve into the intricate dynamics of personal secrets and their impact on human interaction and emotional states. This exploration aims to shed light on the significance of secrets in the digital age, where privacy is constantly being redefined.

This is a mysterious box designed for sharing secrets. It records and blends voices, allowing multiple secrets to echo, overlap, and mix inside, potentially creating unexpected reactions. In today’s complex society, people often feel overwhelmed and seek a private space to confide and reset their mindset. This box will listen and safeguard your secrets until you no longer need them—but beware, someone might be listening!

Speaking, as a way of communication, depends entirely on language—it’s a skill learn through training. But in many situations, it’s not always effective at getting the message across, kind of like kids playing with a string telephone. That’s why I thought about focusing on the core of conversations: emotions. Emotions aren’t as rigid as something like 0 and 1, so they’re less likely to get distorted when transmitted through media and are easier for others to understand.

Therefore, I have used this simple yet primitive form while incorporating AI to analyze the speaker's emotions, enabling the transmission of information. This takes the form of a toy telephone, similar to those used by children in games.

To achieve this, I have trained an AI model capable of accurately recognizing speech emotions, performing real-time analysis, and converting the information into visual representations of images and colors. The project includes a large-scale installation for an immersive experience, along with several smaller installations.

In my communication with parents and children, i discovered that there is a latent need for a separate space for children, which can be very beneficial for the child's mental development. I analyzed the behavioral patterns of children in households and identified the spaces where they spend the most time: bedrooms and living rooms. Considering common mobility needs, I came up with a spatial product—a tent.

Unlike traditional outdoor tents, this design requires easy storage and quick assembly/disassembly, along with high adaptability to fit various indoor and outdoor spaces. For the material, I chose DuPont Tyvek, which balances the characteristics of paper and fabric, offering high flexibility while ensuring children's safety.