In Alzheimer’s disease, a disease associated with ageing, nerve cells in the brain are dying, which leads to reduced brain activity. Some of the patterns of brain activity that get affected are those associated with reading. For that reason, the ability to read and understand a message delivered by a text decreases for a person with Alzheimer’s disease.
In our installation, words disappearing can symbolize nerve cells dying in the brain. The message gets weaker and weaker as words keep on disappearing, and you can somehow see the analogy to Alzheimer’s disease and how it progresses. The stripped text on its own also gives us an image of how we may perceive a person with Alzheimer’s disease.
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KTH School of Architecture - Communicative Spaces 07 - Examinator: Peter Ullstand - Teacher: Antonio Scarponi - Teaching assistant: Filip Biel
Media Design - Course Program
Ageing Modernity. Societies of all the developed countries are ageing. A new existential condition with no precedents in world history is reached.
The course reflect on this social change. The ageing of society is a critical mass that involves the whole sphere of everyday life (the senses perception, the physical mobility, psychology, community organization).
Design Process. Students are invited to join in design teams and reflect on this new condition of normality. The project will start from the analysis of an object that reflect the condition of ageing. The research will then be focused on one aspect that will lead on a media design project that will reflect on the condition of ageing of modern societies.
Exhibition. The course will end with an exhibition where all the prototypes and the installations produced during the course will be presented.
This blog is about the design process that each group is following toward the realization of the final project.
Antonio Scarponi
The course reflect on this social change. The ageing of society is a critical mass that involves the whole sphere of everyday life (the senses perception, the physical mobility, psychology, community organization).
Design Process. Students are invited to join in design teams and reflect on this new condition of normality. The project will start from the analysis of an object that reflect the condition of ageing. The research will then be focused on one aspect that will lead on a media design project that will reflect on the condition of ageing of modern societies.
Exhibition. The course will end with an exhibition where all the prototypes and the installations produced during the course will be presented.
This blog is about the design process that each group is following toward the realization of the final project.
Antonio Scarponi
Student Projects
- Communicative Spaces Course Exhibit Video (1)
- Dorian Gray Mirror (8)
- Dust of Modernity (5)
- Forever Young (5)
- Group 1 Alzheimers? What alzheimers? (2)
- Group 11 (9)
- Group 2 Dust of Modernity (6)
- Group 3 (4)
- Group 8: Forever young (2)
- Group 9: The Clockers (2)
- Grup 12: Populations (1)
- Grupp 6: Destruction (5)
- I Still Have a Dream... (9)
- Traces of time (3)
- Where is my glove (3)
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