Arjun: A Creative Exploration of Worldbuilding To Discuss Cultural Dislocation and Belonging

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aut.relation.endpage69
aut.relation.issue1
aut.relation.journalDAT Journal
aut.relation.startpage42
aut.relation.volume8
dc.contributor.authorArjun Wilson, Damian
dc.contributor.authorTavares, Tatiana
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-23T03:07:29Z
dc.date.available2023-03-23T03:07:29Z
dc.date.copyright2023-03-15
dc.description.abstractThis article will discuss concepts of cultural dislocation and belonging through a practice-led worldbuilding design project called Arjun. Arjun is a creative exploration of storytelling through a designed publication that uses diagrams, notations, and photographic manipulations to explore a character’s experience in a foreign land. The publication presents a polyphonic story from the perspective of Arjun who is hired by the fictional corporation Federation (F.E.D.R) to explore a land where both familiar and unfamiliar takes place. Arjun searches for his sense of purpose and identity, in a self-dialogue with his own dislocation. Established within the tenants of Hinduism, this research project stimulates speculative meanings through worldbuilding design as means to discuss my cultural dislocation with my own Fijian Indian ancestry. Conceptually, the project is concerned with the philosophical principles of Hindu reincarnation, its relationships to the subconscious mind (Callander & Cummings, 2021) and liminality (Turner, 1969; Ipomoea, 2015). The article will discuss how practice emerged both conceptually and visually through a synthesis between theory and making in its creation and conceptualisation. Reflective processes and self-search methodologies are utilised to access personal experiences and prominent levels of exploration with materials through the methods of notation, journaling, copywriting, image processing and prototyping.
dc.identifier.citationDAT Journal, ISSN: 2526-1789 (Online), Universidade Anhembi Morumbi, 8(1), 42-69. doi: 10.29147/datjournal.v8i1.697
dc.identifier.doi10.29147/datjournal.v8i1.697
dc.identifier.issn2526-1789
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/16017
dc.publisherUniversidade Anhembi Morumbi
dc.relation.urihttps://datjournal.anhembi.br/dat/article/view/697
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccess
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectAutoethnography; Cultural Dislocation; Liminality; Manual Design; Science Fiction
dc.titleArjun: A Creative Exploration of Worldbuilding To Discuss Cultural Dislocation and Belonging
dc.typeJournal Article
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