Disappearing Languages

I changed my project subject again. Dramatically, as each time.
I hope this is a sign of progress. Like what Andrew said " Nothing is wasted."
I really hope so. As on the flip side, this can also imply I am too short of knowledge to support the other ideas that I came up with previously.
For example, simplicity, getting lost, hesitation, choice, design & art, market, exhibition, festival, spectacle, alienation, mindlessness...
All these fancy ideas come forward easily and welcomingly, but be overthrown and given up over and over again by not being able to articulate or visualize it.
It is a truly difficult job to produce something while having to write 3000 words to "inform it".
I need 2 years to finish this degree.

Anyhow, today, the deadline of our second submission of research essay outline, here is the subject that I stick to. "Disappearing languages".

According to linguistics research, half of the approximately 6,900 languages spoken on the planet will be extinct within our lifetime. The book by K. David Harrison, titled "When Languages Die" look at the significance of this issue. I thought about relating graphic design to this phenomenon, and maybe I can find some interesting materials and thus produce some images in response. I can also explore our own heritage of Chinese character under this framework.

At this stage, this is the only subject that I can have a picture in mind while having some theory or text that I can refer to and discuss about, and not being too ambitious, unpractical, and boring.

This flow of thoughts came up after I visited the "China Design Now" exhibition at Victoria & Albert Museum yesterday. I just felt an urge to see something Chinese after done all the readings.

And maybe, in retrospect, one of my more sustained interests in learning foreign language is a support to my making the right choice this time.