Prospects & Piety is a real-world activist project that allows university students to develop their self-awareness, explore their future career possibilities and predict unexpected futures, and initiate a critical discussion on purposeless involution and the criteria for achieving self-value in life. Chinese university students, having undergone the competitive "involution" of the college entrance exams, are gradually led by the "involution" of society into a directionless "involution" to reach the "standard of success" before they have a sufficient understanding of themselves.
This project uses the I Ching to guide attitudes in the world through the most loathsome yet familiar test, exploring oneself and one's surroundings, provoking communication, moving from class to dormitory to the whole campus, stimulating exploration and endogenous motivation, planning for the future and finding one's way in the whirlwind of the real world.