Faculty of Arts & Science

Digital Futures

Ziqi Guo

MetaHospital

In this project, the main character is experiencing her first day as a nurse and going through all the emotional ups and downs that come with it. The machine is assisting her to change her emotion to a "perfect" level. This piece is a speculative design intended to raise a question: What would happen if, in the future, we relied entirely on the digital world to provide us with everything, including setting perfect values for us and regulating our emotions? In the video, the character's emotions are adjusted to the perfect level, but should we really depend on machines to regulate our emotions? After all, one of the fundamental differences between machines and humans is that machines lack emotions.

“People always want to control quantification of everything and seek the "accuration." A typical example is to make everything "digitalized." In the future world, while people seek the most "efficient" way to achieve the quantification, they also seek to quatify their emotions. By saving the most valuable emotions based on different occupation, they can achieve their final "evaluation". ”