Explanation of the above plan that was created during this week’s class:
This task of drawing our journey so far in class should help us reflect on what we have come across so far and what we experienced also related to our feelings while facing difficulties.
On the top left, my journey started and this was approximately during the time of Box of Uncertainties, when my focus was mostly on how to enhance concentration or regain it back while studying. At this point, I experimented with images, sound, and the connection to emotions by associating images with childhood in order to feel the comfort from back in the day. I realized the connection to childhood worked best with my participants but I started doubting if this integration isn’t innovative enough and if this is a topic I truly want to work on until the end of this year. As my interest was always based around healing, I reflected on which institutions are concentrating on this matter and need advancement at the same time. Hospitals were one of the first few thoughts that I came across and immediately found interesting, as I see many current issues in the healthcare system and within hospital institutions. I brainstormed what easy and affordable options I could implement into it to make the healing process and environment more enjoyable and pleasant and remembered my recent projects when I used simple and accessible tools to advance concentration. I tried to think of similar tools and believed light can be a successful form to boost healing within non-stimulating environments. Other applications besides light could be plants or foreign sciences from countries in Asia. This inspiration came from having a conversation with an expert with Indian roots, who introduced me to the science of Vastu Shastra. Another expert who works in art direction advised me to create a room in which projections get shown. This made me think progressively of connecting creatives with traditional sectors and how this can innovate the process of healing within hospital environments. This would only be achieved by testing and trying different art forms with diverse interventions on people.
For me personally, this is a point within the project that is most terrifying and connected to fear, as I will only get the best results by working with different generations and approaches that might not always work out. Nevertheless, I see and am aware of that innovation will only happen by failing and not always knowing what will happen or be my next step.