Message in the Sky: the Changing Landscape of Human Aspiration (Work-in-Progress)
Jiayi Young and Shih-Wen Young / USA
University of California, Davis
jdyoung@ucdavis.edu, http://jiayiyoung.net/
Message in the Sky is an online crowd-sourced public participatory project that pools together the hopes and dreams of our time. The goal of the project is to map the landscape of collective human aspiration from people in different geographic locations living with different circumstances. The scale and time span of the project significantly expands research in emerging fields of design that integrates big data to engage social change. In the presence of increasing global challenges in conflict resolution, this project represents a forward-thinking engine that generates a time capsule of the evolution of aspirations globally.