A toolkit for you to better understand colors of wetland water in a more design and personal-experience-based way.
一套新的互动工具：以设计与个体探索采样的视角与方法理解湿地水色。
A project from Ada Hwang 黄舒凡 for Media Design Studio “Flumen”
HueKit brings up the question of how do we capture and understand colors of wetland water in a designer way, exploring and redefining the understanding of wetland water color through three dimensions: natural science knowledge, design, and individual-environment sampling. HueKit can be mainly divided into two parts: one part serves as a background introduction, consisting of a manual and a series of posters that introduce the readers to some of the factors that influence the apparent colors; the other part offers readers a way to sample and understand colors by “experiencing and observing the surrounding wetlands” through two interactive handbooks and a set of original tools and encourages readers to explore and record their own color observations.
As a set of printed paper-works focusing on wetland ecology, HueKit not only decomposes and illustrates the wetlands from my personal perspective, acting as an archive of the wetlands I know, but also allows everyone with the kit to understand and illustrate the unique colors of the wetlands around them. It is both a record and an extension of personal experience, as well as an exploration of a new method and design of the experience.
HueKit提出了「我们如何以设计师的方式捕捉和理解湿地水色」的问题，通过自然科学、设计和个体采样记录三个维度探讨与重构对于湿地水色的理解。整套Toolkit的主体主要分为两个部分：一部分承担了背景引入介绍的功能，由一本手册与一些海报分别向读者介绍了一些湿地水色的影响因素与；另一部分中，通过两本互动书以及一套自创工具给予读者了一种「通过亲历与观察周边湿地」从而采样、理解、重构色彩的方法，同时鼓励读者由此出发，进行自我对湿地水色的探索并记录。
HueKit作为一套关注湿地生态的纸质读物，不仅从我个人的角度来解读湿地水色，也让每个人通过这套工具来理解与捕捉他们周围湿地的独特色彩，因此，它既是个人经历记录创作与延展，也是体验的设计与方法的探索。
About the media adopted in this project
Color is intangible. Wetlands serve as a natural container for holding natural color. This set of printed materials also can be seen as a container for capturing, digging, and storing colors. This color toolkit uses paper print as the main medium, aiming to provide readers with an interesting interactive experience that engages readers, natural environments, and original printed materials (including an introduction booklet, interactive handbooks, sampling cards, Pantone cards, posters, crayons, etc.).
颜色是无形的，湿地作为盛放自然色彩的一枚天然容器，本套读物以印刷媒介呈现一套捕捉、挖掘、储存色彩的工具与容器。 这套色彩工具箱以纸质印物为主要媒介，旨在通过纸媒（包括介绍手册、互动手册、环境采样卡、色卡、海报、蜡笔等在内的一系列读物与自创工具）+读者+身边自然三合一的互动为读者提供一个有趣的体验。
About bio-region concept
The project is based on my(as the designer) experience and discovery of exploring two natural wetlands in my city during the studio. Focusing mainly on the color, I try to find a possible dialogue between humans and natural wetland water. While visiting and wandering in the natural wetlands, I gradually discovered that the color of the wetland water is like a natural code-book or a cross-section of the natural ecology system of the wetland. By adopting changing perspectives, while we are reading the colors, we are also uncovering and understanding the dynamic relationship between the natural ecological components(eg. plants and animals, microorganisms, and inorganic substances) of the wetland.
With the help of the HueKit, I would like to see readers perceive the colors of wetland water with a pair of new eyes, from an ecological way.
该项目是基于设计师（我）在studio期间对生活城市里的两个自然湿地的探索经历与发现进行创作的。在色彩主题的聚焦下，尝试寻找一种人类与自然湿地对话模式的可能性。在接触自然湿地的过程中逐渐发现：湿地水色像一本天然的密码册，或是湿地自然生态奥秘的一个横截切面，采用不同的、变换的视角，我们阅读色彩的同时也是在发现与理解这个湿地中动植物、微生物、无机物等自然生态组成物之间的动态关系。设计初衷是希望设计师（我）与读者都能用一双新鲜、有趣的眼睛，从生态学的角度来感知湿地水色。
