the shanghai project by modolo julia from switzerland

As designers expatriated in China, we deal everyday with cultural differences. What we might call «The Clash of Civilizations».
We here present objects that we bought in Shanghai streets. This collection of everyday use items, made of paper and plastic, could seem useless because they are unusable; neither toys, or ornamental objects. In chinese culture, they are presents given to the dead one. Consumer goods that are sent by the ritual of fire in order to make «the life» of the person more comfortable. These clothes, glasses, cell phones and credit cards symbolize the popular belief of a materialistic Underworld.