With economic growth and the progress of medical and health, life span has been considerably extended, but on the other hand, fertility rate keeps dropping, in that the world enter an aging society. While facing the aging society, “communication between youth and seniors” become an issue that attracts worldwide attention. The creator hopes that the young generation can understand the importance of “communication between youth and seniors” and implement it in daily life. Based on personal experiences and the result of literature reviews, this research aims to eliminate stereotype about senior citizen and stimulate the communication between the young and elder generation. In that, the creator created a fun and heartwarming interactive work to encourage the youth to accompany the elder, and emphasize on the issue of “communication between youth and seniors”. The theme of the first two experimental design artworks are based on “stereotype” and “communication between youth and seniors”, and use a immersive magazine to interact with the viewer. With feedbacks and interviews, it shows that the two generations are willing the interact and learn from each other, and elders that live in cities likes to participate in artistic events. Thus, the creator had the experience of leading artistic events, in that the creator decided to use “art” as the fundamental element of the work.
The work is divided into three part based on literature reviews: Visual Arts, Auditory Arts, and Performance Art. Also propose three series of creative work: phones down, shorten distance, and flip their lives, and use interactive ways to display. The work mainly used figurative pattern to savor the art work by simplifying the graphic, also consists a combination of bright and vivid colors. Viewers need to interact with the work, in that create a fun and warm experience. In that, “fun”, “reminds me of my grandparents”, and “interactive” are the common feedbacks that the work gets.
To sum up, this research aims to give the young generation while communicating with seniors and try to solve the problem between the gap of generations.