An Anonymous Letter đź’Ś
If you are parents, you probably have so many curiosities about your children that is hard to get the answers from them, such as, what is their ideal type of partner? What exactly they are doing for work? Why do they chase celebrities so crazy?
As a child, have you ever been curious about the first date and first fight of your parents? What type of children they were before they became parents? What role they are playing in their workplace? Who do they talk to when they get depressed?
“An Anonymous Letter” is an experimental project aims to improve communication between parents and children.
In this project, I’ll be playing a role as a postman to collect answers from your parents’/children’ s friends based on what you want to know about them and send an letter to you with all the anonymous answers.
The intention of doing this is to help parents and children to enter each other’s world and get to know each other from brand new perspectives.
I started interested in this topic because of my personal experience and feeling. As I grew older and become more mature, I gradually realized that I know too little about my parents’ world and haven’t been sharing too much about what’s going on in my life. I found it’s very hard to communicate with them about my deeper thoughts and the reason behind it is we all live in a different environment and spiritual world. I love them and I think it’s necessary to improve the communication between us.
I have talked to couple young people in the age between 22 to 30 who had a hard time communicating with their parents when they grew up. A core problem I found is that it’s hard for them to reach agreements due to the different values of life and to understand each other.
I did a quick analysis by looking at the network parents and children are in
The outcome based on this community map is that they are both influenced by their own circle of life respectively; it means that parents and children barely get influenced by the other sides’ environment. I believe that’s the core reason to lead their different values of life, and because of the difference, they become harder and harder to understand each other and at the same time the stereotype and generation gap grows.
💌 If you are interested in participating this project, send me an email at jiyumeng.design@gmail.com and let me know what do you want to know about your parents/children, I’ll collect the answers for you! 💌
