Culture and Civilizations

PROJECT 1:THE RISE OF CIVILIZATION

Project 1,it was an assignment which needed us to produce a graphical Timeline Calendar which includes the geographical,economy,politics and culture of the ancient civilizations in Southeast Asia.While for the individual work,we were required to produce an A5-sized culture journal,highlighted the characteristics and achievement of the given civilization.

Following is the picture of my solid 3D timeline:

This is the view of my Timeline Calendar.The brown colour sculpture is my production of Bayon sculpture in Cambodia.While the box which situated beside it,it contains the details information of the timeline of Cambodia.

Following are the pictures of my individual culture journal:

Starts from ZERO  :)

  

And,here comes the cover of culture my journal.

This page in my journal shows the religion in Cambodia.

This is one of the page describing the decline of Angkor in Cambodia.

Information about the architecture.

This page shows the modern days of Cambodia-How Do People Earn Their Livings In Cambodia.

Reflective Essays 

        Objectives of this assignment were to introduce the Western and Eastern culture and civilization through an overview of archaelogical discoveries,ancient monuments,artworks,philosophy and achievement of great leaders from prehistoric to present.Besides that,it needed students to show the basic skills on enquiry,investigations,application and presentation of relevant information to complete this assignment.

             Throughout this assignment,I was exposed to the historical development of human civilization.Thus,I got to know well how did ancient people actually live their life and also,how do modern people improve themselves to make everything become better over period of time.A better skills of data gathering  was developed to complete this assignment as references and researches were needed,otherwise there would be insufficient of information needed.Lastly,by completing the sculpture of Bayon and the journal,I was able to improve my documentation and presentation skills because all of the information that I gathered needed to be planned and ammended before I could hand in this project in a satisfactory condition.

PROJECT 2:MESSAGES FROM THE PAST

For this project,we were assigned to produce a video clip from a specific civilization.We had to play this video based on the themes such as sociology,engineering,archaeology or myth and legends of the given civilization.While for the individual part,we have to create an A5-sized journal to represent our own character based on our choice of design.This assignment,I was assigned to be Anna from the story of "ANNA AND THE KING".

 Following are some of the scenes in my video:

Anna reached Bangkok with her son,Louis.

This is one of the scene where the head of a "kampung" telling Prime Minister that there were many people hanged died,up on a tree.

The King of Siam gifted Anna a house of her own.(as Anna wished to get one since she just reached Bangkok)

One of the famous scene in this movie- Anna danced with The King of Siam who known as King Mongkut.

King Mongkut as a loyal one,went to a war,to protect his own country.

 

Reflective Essays 

              The objective of this project was to examine the similarities and differences between Eastern and Western civilizations.Besides that,it also aimed to show our basic skills on enquiry,investigation,application and presentation of relevant information.On the other hand,the learning outcome intended to let us recall the development of Eastern and Western human civilizations in the past as well as present.

              This time,my group did something differently from the other group.We did puppet show to screen our storyline.The backgrounds and characters,all are custom made by us.We spent much of the time drawing,colouring the backgrounds and even made some unique costumes for our characters.Throughout this assignment,I could understand how did Eastern and Western culture and civilizations developed in Southeast Asia.Furthermore,a good communication between group members was needed to complete this assignment,All of us spoke up our ideas,and did some researches here and there to improve our weaknesses.And so,we chose the best one to perform it.In a nutshell,it is always that fun to learn the history of a play that we are watching.

PROJECT 3:ART+ARCHITECTURE+CULTURE 

Art+Architecture+Culture was the final project for this module.Based on this project,we were given three themes which were Architecture,Food Culture and Pop Culture.This time,we were allowed to choose the themes which we were interested in.Then,we were required to produce an A5-sized coffee book to present our concepts based on the themes which we have chosen.For my case,I chose Food Culture as my theme and night market food(which commonly known as street foods)as my concepts.At the same time,a literature research of our site visit was one of the requirement of this assignment.Based on the requirements of this project,spaces and people were the important elements that have been emphasized.So,I chose different night markets such as Taman Connaught Night Market,SS2 Night Market and Kepong Night Market as my sites.

  

Following are the layout of my coffee table book:

This is my coffee table book-named as FOOD EXTRAVAGANZA and literature review report.

Book cover of FOOD EXTRAVAGANZA

Page that shows introduction of my concepts.

Reflective Essays

             The objectives of this project were to introduce the Eastern and Western culture and civilization through an overview of archaeological discoveries,ancient monuments,artworks,philosophy and achievement of great leaders from prehistoric to present.Besides that,this project also aimed to show basic skills on enquiry,investigation,application and presentation of relevant information.While the learning outcome of this project were intended to let us describe the historical development of human civilization and recall the development of Eastern and Western human civilizations in the past as well as present.

             Throughout this project,I was able to capture the nature of people enjoying and preparing the food which were included as the aspects in FOOD CULTURE.By choosing the right sites(spaces) and people,it brought different feelings to me as people at different places had different characteristics.Besides that,this assignment enabled me to learn the skills of designing and presenting my work in a creative way.In all words,it was an interesting assignment for me because I'd really learnt much throughout the project.