DESIGN NAME: Food Terms
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Mobile Application
INSPIRATION: In my childhood, when in the winter start day of 24 solar terms,my grandma always do not go out her house, do not speak all day, but will cook steaming dumplings for the whole family. Because Chinese people believe that day is the year's most severe chi, yang the weakest day, do not speak can save the body of yang, and steaming dumplings can help people to restore yang .This kind of food culture inherited the generation of Chinese people's family feelings and the wisdom of respect for nature.
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: It's an mobile application interface design. According to China's traditional culture, there are 24 Solar Terms in the whole year. each solar term means a new start for everything .According to the different solar terms, people carry out different daily behavior, such as diet, farming.Even if the animals will have different behavior. Adapt to the solar term is the traditional Chinese diet wisdom. This phone application is based on different solar terms to remind you to use a different diet.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: The app can remind the user at one special solar term, what food should be eaten, and traditional folklore.
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The project started in September 2016 in Shenyang ,China and finished in April 2017.
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: Now it's a prototype of mobile application. It was built using MockingBot platform
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: The application is a responsive design, automatically resizing across all mobile devices. iOs and android
TAGS: app, tradition, China, food culture, solar terms, interface, history
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: Traditions from the past often unknown by the youngsters and risk to be forgotten.Different areas take care of different people.According to Chinese tradition, the year is divided into 24 solar terms to interpret and it's a kind of full of mystery and ritual sense of life wisdom and food culture. I hope that this idea and culture can be spread to more people.
CHALLENGE: After an in-depth study of the traditional Chinese intangible cultural heritage of 24 solar terms, we collected a lot of information, how to optimize the information, how to make this kind of diet based on solar terms through the visual image better? It is the challenge that we met in the course of the project.
ADDED DATE: 2017-06-30 09:08:56
TEAM MEMBERS (2) : Yinan Wu and Yuanbing Zhao
IMAGE CREDITS: 1: Designer Yinan Wu, Yuanbing Zhao, 24 Chinese Solar Terms' Food Culture, 2017
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