{"id":1685,"date":"2021-10-18T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T13:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prnasia.com\/story\/archive\/3542695_CN42695_0"},"modified":"2021-10-18T13:11:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T13:11:00","slug":"wavemaker-x-zhihu-ten-thousand-makers-walked-a-curious-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transmediavictoria.net.au\/?p=1685","title":{"rendered":"Wavemaker \u00d7 Zhihu: Ten Thousand Makers Walked a Curious Route"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"xn-location\">SHANGHAI<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Oct. 18, 2021<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; <span id=\"spanHghltce0b\">On <span class=\"xn-chron\">October 16-17<\/span>,<\/span> Maker Faire Shanghai \u2013 one of the most popular Maker Movement&#8217;s global conventions made its second landing on the Bund. As the strategic partners of the Faire, leading media agency Wavemaker and <span class=\"xn-location\">China&#8217;s<\/span> largest online Q&amp;A community Zhihu, together with One Planet Nature Foundation, unfurled their own path on the otherwise unassuming Yuanmingyuan Road pedestrian walk.<\/p>\n<p>With two highly participatory performance artwork, the Partners invited every curious adult and child to question and answer, reflecting on the now and envisioning the future, creating together a <i>Curious Route<\/i>, and a one-of-a-kind Answer Wall comprised of bricolages about their takes on the future.<\/p>\n<div class=\"PRN_ImbeddedAssetReference\" id=\"DivAssetPlaceHolder2469\" readability=\"7\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/1662723\/1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/1662723\/1.jpg?p=medium600\" title=\"The hundred-meter Curious Route on the hundred-year-old pedestrian walk. Photograph: Wavemaker CN.\" alt=\"The hundred-meter Curious Route on the hundred-year-old pedestrian walk. Photograph: Wavemaker CN.\"><\/a><br \/><span>The hundred-meter Curious Route on the hundred-year-old pedestrian walk. Photograph: Wavemaker CN.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This performance artwork is about <i>questioning<\/i> and <i>answering.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The questions transformed participants&#8217; individual curiosity to the future onto the hundred-meter Route in traditional Chinese calligraphy.<\/p>\n<p>The answers were woven into distinctive artworks, every one a most resounding response to the future.<\/p>\n<div class=\"PRN_ImbeddedAssetReference\" id=\"DivAssetPlaceHolder6533\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/1662724\/2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/1662724\/2.jpg?p=medium600\" title=\"The questions written on the Route all came from the crowd with a diverse background. Photograph: Wavemaker CN.\" alt=\"The questions written on the Route all came from the crowd with a diverse background. Photograph: Wavemaker CN.\"><\/a><br \/><span>The questions written on the Route all came from the crowd with a diverse background. Photograph: Wavemaker CN.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On and off the Route, thousands of future-makers offered their own thoughts on the topic in recorded interviews and casual chats, fusing their questions into the hundred-meter walk and, on the far end of it, coalescing their hopes and wishes into unique DIY bricolages, collectively showcasing a future full of creativeness. This participatory future-making reawakened the crowd&#8217;s curiosity toward tomorrow&#8217;s unknown, at the same time giving it generous space to be expressed and heeded. Such inventive, diverse, and sustainability-conscious imaginations boldly zoomed out the confines of an unsurprising now, refocusing instead on the unseen end of the temporal horizon.<\/p>\n<div class=\"PRN_ImbeddedAssetReference\" id=\"DivAssetPlaceHolder1393\" readability=\"10\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/1662725\/3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/1662725\/3.jpg?p=medium600\" title=\"The Answer Wall, the final exhibition to inspire thinking about the future, was created from young people and children\u2019s on-site imaginations. Photograph: Wavemaker CN.\" alt=\"The Answer Wall, the final exhibition to inspire thinking about the future, was created from young people and children\u2019s on-site imaginations. Photograph: Wavemaker CN.\"><\/a><br \/><span>The Answer Wall, the final exhibition to inspire thinking about the future, was created from young people and children\u2019s on-site imaginations. Photograph: Wavemaker CN.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>During the abrupt weekend chillness, flanked by a dazzling array of exhibitors that mostly focused on cutting-edge technology demo or workshop, the refreshing sight of Wavemaker and Zhihu brought a warmer and more undiluted side to tomorrow&#8217;s storywriting. Every participant their own protagonist, their gathering&nbsp;soon became a welcoming oasis in the very heart of a vast clockwork urban rhythm.<\/p>\n<p>The <i>Curious Route<\/i> is, in effect, just a prelude to <i>Our Questions to the Future\u00ad<\/i>\u2014a tribute to those who believe in and look forward to a more diverse, inclusive, and sustainable future. Committed to rediscovering the irrepressible curiosity adults once had as children as well as protecting and encouraging every child&#8217;s hope for tomorrow, the participatory social innovation project brought an intimate, curious, and insightful adventure to right under the tens of thousands weekend merry seekers, writing a promising foreword to the colossal endeavor of making a better future.<\/p>\n<p>In the next chapters of the project, Wavemaker and Zhihu will publish an <i>Our Questions to the Future\u00ad<\/i> book by the end of 2021, continue sharing more questions from partners who are on different walks of life. Around the same time, a Q&amp;A forum will be launched on Zhihu.com, where the Partners will continue to invite questions of varying magnitude, engaging the public to stay focused on a future on our living breathing planet.<\/p>\n<p id=\"PURL\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Cision\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" alt=\"Cision\" src=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/img\/favicon.png?sn=CN42695&amp;sd=2021-10-18\"> View original content to download multimedia:<a id=\"PRNURL\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/wavemaker-O-zhihu-ten-thousand-makers-walked-a-curious-route-301402243.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/wavemaker-O-zhihu-ten-thousand-makers-walked-a-curious-route-301402243.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHANGHAI, Oct. 18, 2021 \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; On October 16-17, Maker Faire Shanghai \u2013 one of the most popular Maker Movement&#8217;s global conventions made its second landing on the Bund. 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