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5 Designing wellbeing through storytelling Tjhien Liao In one of the presentations 1 , a student acted out the life of a fictional individual, beginning with: “This is my story”. Step by step, the student acted out the loss of the desire to live, culminating in the question: “Why do I live?”. In this story, the fictional individual was aided by “Mi”, a web service that provides a means for self-reflection in close communication with others, such as family, friends and psychiatric care professionals. Vividly, the student managed to grip the audience’s attention, reaching a level of resonance that would otherwise have been difficult to achieve. 1 Florina Trost, Vesa Ylirisku, Kaushik Eshwar and Nargis Guseynova 72
Described above is one of the six presentations given by the design students during the project “Design for wellbeing in psychiatric care”. By deciding to perform a story, this group clearly deviated from the other presentations. And although the presentation directed our attention to the suggested solution, “Mi”, we cannot isolate the solution from the story and the compelling manner in which the story was told (page 74). This is just one example that illustrates that, in addition to the proposed solution, both the story and its telling form significant elements that are integral to its design. In examining the different scenarios presented in this project, we are provided with the opportunity to exemplify the role of stories in designing a scenario within the context of psychiatric care. Psychiatric care as an inspiration for design For our design students, working with psychiatric care was challenging and not very straightforward. For an eight-week project, the psychiatric care discipline may have seemed very large, and the services it provides complex. The issues that such organisations face are seldom reducible to a single department, group or person. Instead, issues are often found in and around the organisation at large, and the distinct ways in which the services are organised. The challenges that psychiatric care poses become even bigger when we consider that the complexity of its organisation is easily matched by the complexity and varying needs of those who are dependent on its services. With an organisation this large and a service this complex, it was challenging for our design students to envision a desired change by means of a single artefact or, for example, a cosmetic change in its premises. These may simply not do the trick to make a convincing wider change in regards to wellbeing in psychiatric care. The design students had to challenge some of the traditional views of design as a practice of creating concrete material artefacts or solutions that are immediately implementable. Some even questioned what role they could possibly play in such an environment and why designers were 73 · Designing wellbeing through storytelling
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