About
‘Not Quite 100′ is a design research project where media, design, and psychiatry students design for and with people with schizophrenic symptoms. One in 100 people develop schizophrenia at some point in their life, yet what happens within the walls of mental health is often kept from society. In this project, designers from various disciplines collaborate with experts (health professionals and people with schizophrenic symptoms) to confront one of the most stigmatized phenomena of our society.
In ‘Not quite 100′ we choose to work with people with schizophrenic symptoms. In spite of advances in the understanding of its causes, course and treatment, schizophrenia continues to confound both health professionals and the general public. The lack of knowledge and one-sided media portrayals contribute to the stigma of mental disorders. Schizophrenia is widely considered the most serious mental disorder, characterised by positive, negative, cognitive and affective symptoms. Positive symptoms, in a clinical term, refer to symptoms that are added to reality: delusions, auditory hallucinations, megalomaniac thoughts or bizarre thought content, and are typically regarded as manifestations of psychoses. Negative symptoms reflect the loss or absence of abilities: motor impairment, flattened affect, lack of contact, passivity or apathetic withdrawal. Cognitive symptoms are difficulty in abstract thinking, disorientation, conceptual confusion, lack of attention or self-absorption. Affective symptoms are depression, hopelessness or dysphoria (De Hert et al., 1998).
For more info contact: jessica.schoffelen@mda.khlim.be
