Schizoframed
The team of ‘Schizoframed’ worked with people living in sheltered housing. All Probe assignments focus on the same elements of peoples’ social network: inviting the respondents to design their ideal party, to design a t-shirt for their ideal imaginary team and to send postcards with greetings or wishes, thereby not applying the potential of Probes as an open exploration but rather exploring the same assumption from different angels for it’s results to be grounded.
The project ‘resulted in an online facebook application that wants to decrease the distance between people with schizophrenic symptoms and everyday life. Their probes proved the value of a friendship network for people with schizophrenic symptoms. The game guides players through different aspects of psychiatric trajectories and is like other facebook games based on progress by maintaining social networks. A visit from friends helps people to reach another level in their psychiatic trajectory.
Videotrailer of Schizoframed by Wim Bussels, Seppe Janssen, Wouter Medaer, Ben Merckx, Cindy Paesen.
Design research project NOt Quite 100 // Schizoframed from Jessica Schoffelen on Vimeo.
