For my first tutorial outside the tutor group within unit 3, I came prepared with a few questions, such as:
-Are there any books you can recommend for this topic?
-Are there any interesting spaces, exhibitions, or museums that work with light or are related to my topic and could be helpful?
-Are there any courses at CSM you are aware of that could help me with my project?
-How are we supposed to document our data? – Is it just on the blog?
-Thinking of primary, secondary, and auto-ethnographic research methods, are there any other methods I could use?
-Do I need to design something myself for this project or can we also collaborate?
->Or does it just need to be a concept for this unit?
As tutorial time is not long, I was not able to get into each of them, but the questions will still be relevant over the next few weeks within the project and tutorial sessions.
Nevertheless, I was able to share a few of the books that I found this week.
The full list can be found below:
-The mental health of nurses in the UK
-Therapy by Design: evaluating the UK hospital building program
-Healing Arts, Nutrition for the soul
-Healing Arts, The History of Art Therapy
-Touching space in hurt& healing: exploring experiences of illness& recovery through tactile art
-Touching& Imagining
In the tutorial we then began to discuss my research question:
How can new forms of creativity be incorporated as a healing element in hospital environments?
I was advised that a few points within this question are not quite clear and need change and clarity, such as new forms, which creates a bit of confusion. The question is if ”new” is the correct word to use here, as the art forms or creativity are not necessarily new. Replacing ”new” with ”alternative” would work better for instance and explaining that the topic wants to move away from more traditional art forms might make more sense than using the word ”creativity”. Also, it needs to be clear what forms of art it would be, such as sculpture or object.
In addition, it is necessary to think about what type of specific illness, patients, hospital departments, or who exactly would benefit from my installations or a specific type of art form within hospital environments. Could a specific type of art benefit a specific patient? It needs to be considered that different patients would react differently. Since I mentioned tactile art in my tutorial, I could make more research about this and consider who would especially need and benefit from it. It would also be important to start to consider how and what kind of patients react to my integration. This would be a question to be asking a neurologist or doctor for instance.
We came across the term neurodiversity and how this could be a term to research and could potentially benefit from my idea and concept.
Further than that, I was advised to move away from hospital environments during my research and possibly consider other spaces.
Over the next few days, I will restructure my research question.