Extinction And Revival
Yiwen Tu
It is through human instinct that people preserve the endangered and resurrect the extinct. After reaching the extreme of one ideology, any society is bound to swing back to the opposite side as it seeks a new future. While searching for this opposite idea, people usually look back into history for references, thereby reforming through revival. The revived is transformed into a weapon against current unpromising situations rather than simply as a process of reproduction of the original. This thesis aims to study how annihilation and resurrection can be applied in design as methodologies, and how it can shape future human understanding and behavior.
Through destroying the content, form or the physical artifact, the original message becomes faded or gets overthrown. The outcome of extinction and revival can be seen as an expansion on the original project, as well as a new conversation between the past and the present.
The Extinction and Revival of Chinese Philosophy — Posters representing Confucianism, Mohism, Taoism, and Legalism
The Extinction and Revival of Chinese Philosophy
When saving the image document of the sculpture as a postscript file, the image is written in lines of code. If I use text editor to manipulate a specific line of code, the corresponding line of pixels in the digital file will be garbled.
Digital Destruction — What We Believe in A.D. 2019
Physical Destruction—Philosophy in A.D. 2019
In A.D. 2019, traditional philosophies no longer exert their influence, and the power that created so much inspiration and progress in social development has been absent (extinct) for a long time.
Extinction And Revival Manifesto — Process
