V&A Narrative, we chose the object "Netsuke" to be our narrative. The object itself was a functional pieces of sculpture back in 17th century in Japan. And then became popular in 19th century in Europe as collectors items. To the modern day, Netsuke is actually the origin of all the mobile phone accessories. The number of aspects in Netsuke is large and sometime means more to them than meets the eye.
The main idea is to look at how Netsuke was used to carry personal stuff in the Japanese history, and what could it be carrying in modern era. Therefore we are looking at Sociology as a broad area of research.
We figured there might be something which is important to modern citizens. that people might feel its importance therefore carrying with them all the time. First is the mobile phone, is an obvious one, there is actually a new medical terms calls" Nomophobia" , which is the fear of "being out of mobile phone contact" (Low credit, low battery, out of network coverage) , Second maybe their virtual identity, this one is sort of connected to the first as virtual identity relies on mobile network to work.
Above are the things we may want to carry on our personal life, but in terms of the project which specifically pointed at museum purpose, we then chose another aspect-Memory. As many Netsukes were traded from owner to owner through out the many decades. Some of them have carries some of the most interesting story. "The Hare With Amber Eye" by Edmund de Waal is the best example.
So we decide to create a Netsuke which will record a person`s visiting experience in V&A museum, then they would be able to recall everything they have seen or have missed in their tour.
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