Making Matters App
Addressing the inherent turbulence of beign a designer
Addressing the inherent turbulence of beign a designer
Addressing the inherent turbulence of beign a designer
Design master students often focus on delivering creative, resourceful and unique ideas on the design problems at hand while encountering periods of uncertainty, such as dealing with stress, anxiety and depression. Additionally, some design practices do not propose to pause and wonder what will happen if students take time to explore and comprehend their emotions, as recognizing and understanding emotions is sometimes challenging. However, pursuing reflective practices could foster students’ confidence, facilitating self-expression and creativity.
Design master students often focus on delivering creative, resourceful and unique ideas on the design problems at hand while encountering periods of uncertainty, such as dealing with stress, anxiety and depression. Additionally, some design practices do not propose to pause and wonder what will happen if students take time to explore and comprehend their emotions, as recognizing and understanding emotions is sometimes challenging. However, pursuing reflective practices could foster students’ confidence, facilitating self-expression and creativity.
Design master students often focus on delivering creative, resourceful and unique ideas on the design problems at hand while encountering periods of uncertainty, such as dealing with stress, anxiety and depression. Additionally, some design practices do not propose to pause and wonder what will happen if students take time to explore and comprehend their emotions, as recognizing and understanding emotions is sometimes challenging. However, pursuing reflective practices could foster students’ confidence, facilitating self-expression and creativity.
Master of Design at Emily Carr University of Art & Design
Visual Design / UI
UX Research
Mental Health & Well-being
A digital space or a tool to encounter the world as a designer/researcher. Its main principle is to offer a way for students to acknowledge that uncertainty is inevitably part of being a designer and a way of knowing. Therefore, the Making Matter App is a tool to promote that uncertainty is part of the generative process of creating possibilities and by acknowledging that it is a way to step into unknowable futures, as Pink, Sarah, et al. (2018) pointed out.
Making Matters App will be a university-focused community app. This way, the app can have a more significant impact as it also fosters face-to-face belonging within already available spaces dedicated to students’ mental health and well-being. The universities can offer a digital space where new students can navigate through an archive of past and present students that shared their makings within their journeys as becoming creative practitioner
