Modeling the Unseen

2018

Client: Imaginaries Lab

Team: Josh LeFevre, Laura Rodriguez, Katie Herzog, and Newell Kahle

Duration: 6 weeks

Tools: Design Ethnographies (various), InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Laser cutter, Guided Counseling

My role: Researcher, designer, author, editor, publisher

Link to Full Documentation

OBJECTIVE 

Explore how individuals can talk about mental health through visual metaphors. We were looking for similarities in metaphor and materiality between discrete emotional models to inform care and treatment long-term.

SOLUTION

A design kit that allows individuals to express their inner mental feelings through physical form.

Additionally, Our research was accepted and included in the book, Creative Approaches to Health Education, as an effective method for making the invisible…visible.

Pictures of feelings modeled with design kit as taken by and created by participants.

Pictures of feelings modeled with design kit as taken by and created by participants.

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This is the modeling design kit. The materiality of each pieces and shape was selected based on testing and research on the topic to expand the realm of possible when discussing out "invisible" emotions.

This is the modeling design kit. The materiality of each pieces and shape was selected based on testing and research on the topic to expand the realm of possible when discussing out "invisible" emotions.

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