I have chosen the theme “Intercultural communications” as my research topic. As a foreigner student living in the Europe, I have experienced many cultural differences as well as similarities between Middle Eastern and European culture. These differences and similarities are varied in many different ways, such as the way people communicate with each other, the way they decorate their houses, how they shop their groceries and cook, how they celebrate, how different relationships define, better to say, how “design” in different fields looks like. I suppose many international design students such as me, need some time to get to know the new culture in order to make different designs for it. Personally, I often try to find a way between both cultures in order to create something unique as well as understandable for both cultures.
There are many questions that I ask myself almost all the time, for instance, what does beauty mean? What is the best technique to show a specific message? How can I break boundaries and make something understandable without any geographical restriction? Is there any way so I could make at least a small summary about design and beauty factors in different cultures and compare them?
There are many Iranian artists who have more or less same experiences such as, Marjane Satrapi, Shirin Neshat, Farhad Moshiri etc. who are inspirations for me and also have tried fining answers for these questions.
I would like to start my research about defining intercultural topics and realize firstly, what really happens when two different cultures confront each other. After that, I would like to investigate about visual cultural differences such as forms, colours, compositions etc. For example, how do people work on same subject but in different cultures and how do they use forms and colours and other visual elements.
