In my final project, I want to illustrate modern society\u2019s influences on traditional rituals which reflect the extremely packaged life is keeping us away from our own life. Living in such a consumerist century nowadays, we are used to, and become more and more dependent on the \u201cpackaged life\u201d. In other words, people can\u2019t even picture life without semi-finished spaghetti, a chair that only takes three steps to be assembled, and direct to home, washed up, cut into segments vegetable. Indeed, technology makes our life much more convincing, while when it reaches a point, it will also take away our opportunities to be part of it.<\/p>\n
I want to remind people about it, so in my final project, I depict a potential product that might appear in future supermarkets. Its name is \u201cFuneral Package\u201d. It includes everything that people might need in a Chinese traditional funeral if their relative dies, while in a modern version. For instance, in a traditional Chinese funeral, these are the most common custom.<\/p>\n
The essence of a funeral is for us to memorize our loved ones. It supposed to be sacred and solemn. While the \u201cFuneral Package\u201d commercialized this ritual. I will use a lot of reproduction methods such as printing and artificial material to replace handmade processes to show the influence of commercialism. It seems disrespectful and even absurd in today\u2019s view, while what is scary is that it might actually come true in the future considering the current favor of packaged life.<\/p>\n
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