Embracing Uncertainty

Description

This master’s project asks how gap-year experiences are understood, narrated, and socially negotiated by Chinese students, and how an online exhibition can present these experiences without reducing them to a single explanation. Each participant is presented as an independent point of entry in a bilingual website that pairs summary, keywords, images or video, and a full transcript, allowing visitors to move between overview and close reading. The interviews show that gap years emerge through diverse conditions, including academic pressure, uncertain career decisions, migration, family negotiation and so on. By translating interview archives into a digital exhibition, the project argues for a more nuanced, people-first account of uncertainty, one that preserves complexity rather than forcing experience into a single success narrative.

Team

Members

Student: Xueqi Zhang

Supervisor: Lauren Sanford