At this moment, NFT is in the fifth layer: Creator economy. However, my project is more relevant with the 7th layer, using metaverse technology to enhance the experience. Some ritual that contains social attribute can be worth experimenting.
Why ‘rituals’?
My thinking was set in motion by those who, knowing I was a parish minister for many years, asked me for advice about ceremonies and celebrations. They wanted words to use at graduations, funerals, and the welcoming of children. They inquired about grace at family meals, the reaffirmation of wedding vows, and ways to heal wounds suffered in personal conflict. People requested help with the rituals of solitude, such as meditation, prayer, and contemplation…
Rituals do not always involve words, occasions, officials, or an audience. Rituals are often silent, solitary, and self-contained. The most powerful rites of passage are reflective — when you look back on your life again and again, paying attention to the rivers you have crossed and the gates you have opened and walked on through, the thresholds you have passed over.
I see ritual when people sit together silently by an open fire.
Remembering.
As human beings have remembered for thousands and thousands of years.
Robert Fulghum From Beginning to end: The rituals of our lives, Chapter Once
My understanding：
When I design the questionnaire, I feel like it’s important to define what is esoteric element first. So I listed some possible options that can be explored in the future:
I plan to design three different questionnaires to see how people react to these three different elements then divide my final elements.
It is crucial that the migrant should be able to find space to construct an identity that can accommodate what he or she once was and is now supposed to be: an identity that is somewhere in-between. This is true also for those who now find themselves actively marginalised/minoritised in societies where they have long been settled.
Are we prepared to acknowledge that the in-betweenness of migrant identities, in the literal and metaphorical sense, both calls up, and calls into question, existing referential notions of cultural authenticity and traditional, stable identity?
Fanon whose writings made the post-colonial perspective possible: ‘In the world through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself … And it is by going beyond the historical, instrumental hypothesis that I will initiate my cycle of freedom’ (1986: 229–31).
Narratives for a New Belonging — Roger Bromley
My understanding:
For immigrants, when you come into contact with a new culture, you can easily feel lost in the first place, and you will also be caught in a cultural gap. You should try to combine two different cultures and use your own understanding to create new cultural products. This can be private, but when private interest becomes a trend, it becomes a new creation.
The most direct expression of personal interests, tastes, and habits is through people’s daily rituals or the sense of ritual in important cultural activities.
I started living in London in 2017 till now, I realize there is a large amount of Chinese who come overseas to study or make a living every year. What role this experience plays in our lives is the question I always want to explore.
London is a wonderful city, it embraces all kinds of cultures, and cultural diversity is fully reflected here. I have observed an interesting phenomenon: the more people participate in cultural communication, the more in-depth and detailed their observations of their traditional culture are. Under such circumstances, people can have more inspiration and intervention about their nations and selves, which can be some comfort for lonely people living foreign land.