Control of a Story - Master Graduation Project, MA Social Design, Design Academy Eindhoven – Control of a Story comes from the intention to explore the communication dynamics of a family system that has to live with mental diversity, in particular bipolar disorder. Fictional storytelling and play become tools to reinforce empathic capacity and challenge our socially encoded perception of reality. The narrative template acquires physicality and is personalized according to one's own experience. The objects create an ambiguous transitional space, developing a third position, situated in the middle and mediating ways of being.
A Story of Control - Master Thesis, MA Social Design, Design Academy Eindhoven – By getting to the core of the communicative process, the research explores different ways to trick and educate the lenses filtering our way of looking at others and ourselves. Using storytelling and playfulness as tools to reinforce empathic capacity and challenge our socially encoded perception of reality. Sometimes theory is not enough to justify the dynamic of a relationship, and our instinct is often biased by prejudiced filters that interfere with our perception of others and create hierarchies. There is no possible or impossible, but a set of different perspectives, and we must learn how to shift from one to another with more flexibility.
