Portraits of Third Spaces: Your DKU/Kunshan Story is a community project to create a unique story that captures the intercultural transformation of the people of the DKU and Kunshan communities.
The transformation that many students, faculty, staff, and members of the Kunshan community have experienced in the past two years is a result of other experiences: altered spaces, new environments with different languages and cultures, intercultural interactions, celebrations, frustrations, loss, and so much more that cannot be possibly contained in a list.
Portraits of Third Spaces: Your DKU/Kunshan Story will capture a snapshot of the DKU and Kunshan communities, creating a collective narrative that will reflect transformations resulting from intercultural encounters. TSL’s Portraits of Third Spaces: Your DKU/Kunshan Story campaign endeavors to catalog the uniqueness of individuals and contexts resulting from the interface of multiple cultures, in order to reflect the transformation of individuals and of spaces. TSL hopes that our campaign will encourage moments of reflection as our communities continue to move forward.
Third Space Lab invites you to submit your personal reflection of transformation from your experiences at DKU or in Kunshan in response to the following themes (Language/Culture, Identity, and Spaces). The sub-themes below each theme are merely examples, and you are free to discuss another topic that falls under the larger theme:
Language and/or Culture
- How have your (intercultural) experiences at DKU or in Kunshan affected your language or your view of language (Mandarin Chinese, English, or another language)?
- How has it affected how you view (your) culture(s) and other cultures?
Identity
nativeness vs. non-nativeness
dominance vs. marginalization
self vs. other
insider vs. outsider
- How has your experience defined or redefined how you conceptualize or challenge the above (often perceived) dichotomies?
- How has your experience in the past year or two influenced how you see yourself and others? How so?
- How has it influenced your relationships with others (family, friends back home, new encounters, etc.)?
- How has it affected your interests (personal, academic, professional, etc.)?
- How has it influenced how you perform your identity in front of different audiences (family, friends back home, new encounters, etc.)?
Spaces
public vs. private
online vs. in-person
physical vs. intellectual
- How have some of the consequences of the pandemic influenced your conceptualization of the spaces mentioned above?
- How has your new environment affected your awareness of how your identity is shaped by these spaces?
Initial selection for the event will not be based on mastery of a medium (e.g. selection will be made based on how well the submission depicts the themes, not how aesthetically “good” or “skilled” it is) and can include poetry, drawings, paintings, photographs, and other creative works (video of alternative dance, etc.). Your submission must be accompanied by an oral or written narrative expressing your unique reflection on how your submission captures your transformation. We welcome submissions in both English and Chinese, as well as bilingual submissions including English or Chinese and another language.
Shortlisted submissions will be featured in an on-campus exhibition at Duke Kunshan University during the 2020-2021 academic year.
The project is completely free and open to all ages, statuses, and abilities. Submissions are accepted from now until September 1st and will be evaluated on a rolling basis.
Share your artifacts and narratives with us at thirdspacelab@dukekunshan.edu.cn, and please specify which theme(s) and subthemes you would like to be considered for.
The audience will vote for their 3 favorite student entries and the best 3 student submissions will receive a prize (more information will come at the end of the summer).
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由昆山杜克大学人文研究中心下设的第三空间研究室策划发起的《第三空间画像 ：您的昆杜 /昆山故事》是一个社区项目，旨在创建一个记录昆杜人与昆山当地人的跨文化蜕变的独特群体故事。
《第三空间画像：您的昆杜 /昆山故事》将通过昆杜和昆山社区成员的个人经历，创建一个群体故事，以反映跨文化际遇所带来的转变。 第三空间研究室的《第三空间画像：您的昆杜 /昆山故事》征集活动希望对跨文化的个体和其独特背景进行归类，来反映个体和空间的转变。 第三空间研究室的愿景是我们的活动能鼓励人们进行反思，从而推动我们的社区继续前进。
第三空间研究室邀请您针对以下主题（语言/文化，身份，空间），根据您在昆山杜克大学或昆山社区的经历提交对转变(transformation)的个人反思。每个主题下的子主题仅是示例，您可以自由讨论属于该主题的其他未列出子主题：
- 语言和/或文化
- 您在昆山杜克大学或昆山的（跨文化）经历怎样影响了您的语言或您对于语言的看法（包括中文，英语或其他语言）？
- 您在昆山杜克大学或昆山的（跨文化）经历怎样影响了您看待（您的）文化和其他文化？
- 身份认同
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- 母语者与非母语者
- 主流群体与边缘化群体
- 自我与和他者
- 内部群体与外部群体
- 您的经历怎样定义或重新定义了您对于上述（通常意义上的）二分法的理解？
- 在过去一两年，您的经历怎样影响了您对自己和他人的看法？原因是什么呢？
- 在过去一两年，您的经历怎样影响了您与他人的关系（家庭，在家乡的朋友，结交的新朋友等）？
- 在过去一两年，您的经历怎样影响了您的兴趣（个人，学术，专业等）？
- 在过去一两年，您的经历怎样影响了您在不同的群体（家人，在家乡的朋友，结交的新朋友等）面前表现自己的身份？
- 空间
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- 公共空间与私人空间
- 网络空间与面对面
- 物理空间与思维空间
- 此次疫情怎样重塑了您对上述空间的概念？
- 您所处的新环境怎样影响了您对上述空间如何塑造您的身份的认识？
本次比赛的初筛不基于对媒介的掌握。我们的评选将基于提交内容与主题的相符程度，而不是基于其美学上的“良好”或“熟练”程度。作品形式可以有诗歌，绘画，摄影和其他创意作品（舞蹈视频等）。您提交的作品必须随附口头或书面叙述，以表达您的作品如何表现“转变”的独特思考。我们欢迎中英双语的作品和叙述，如果您以其他语言提交，请附中文或英文的翻译。
入围作品将在2020-2021学年期间在昆山杜克大学的校园展览中展出。该项目是完全免费的，并且开放给所有年龄段和不同身份的人们参与。即日起至2020年9月1日，我们将接收所有提交的内容，并将对其进行滚动评估。
请将您的作品发送到此邮箱（thirdspacelab@dukekunshan.edu.cn），并且请标明您作品的参赛类别。 观众将对他们最喜欢的3个作品进行投票，并且最受欢迎的3个作品的作者将获得奖品（更多信息将在夏末时提供）。
