Comprehending Chronic Pain through Evocative Mediums


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Creator/Artist: Jonathan Mathew

Category: Interaction Design

Document: P2 Project

Batch: 2017-2019

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  2009-2018

Medium: Presentation pdf

Supervisor: Prof. Vivek Kant


Detailed Description

This design exploration beings to address the idea or the notion of evoking thought and provoking action through evocative objects. This centered around chronic pain; revolves around two challenges: first, to express chronic pain where the interaction is pliable through evocation and second, the possibility to communicate the same to a caregiver through embodiment. This exploration seeks to probe into these questions, can we design objects to evoke thought? Or even provoke action? What might the characteristics of these be? How do we design for evocation? Could evocative objects be used as a medium to better understand, communicate and express chronic pain? While we start to experience these objects, we realize that there is a certain level of intensity and similarity that we share with them; in-turn they could offer us a way to relate our connections to the world through them. This experimental approach does not seek to validate the use of these objects as substitutes for any medical purpose, but to shed light on new possibilities to approach chronic pain.