In the very beginning, we started with the question, “Why do Asian people tend to be shy and avoid going to therapy?” We then conducted a survey with several questions, such as, “When do you feel depressed?”, “How do you normally deal with your depression?”, and “What do you think about therapy?”After organizing the responses, we found that East Asian people, especially those aged between 20 and 30, often hide their emotions and tend to ignore them. This behavior stems from the way we were taught as children. Our parents often told us, “You are not strong enough to handle this pressure, so you have a mental illness,” or “You are just overthinking; you need to keep yourself busy.”Over several generations, this mindset has led us to hide our emotions and avoid taking action to deal with them. We are afraid to speak up because we worry about causing problems for our parents or others.
Wind is transparent, a wanderer unseen. It comes and goes, soft as a sigh, gentle as breath—then fierce, pressing, sharp. It can soothe, it can sting. We feel its touch, but never its face.
Emotions are like the wind, come and go in a hurry, but the traces left by emotions are permanent, just like the wind.If emotions are a gust of wind, how do we structure and reconstruct the physiological manifestations of emotions? How do we communicate emotions with each other through the wind?
Different emotion will cause different reponse of skin, temperature, peach of voice even the facial or behavior changes.We metaphor wind as human’s emotion, combined with sensors to sence people’s emotion, then use different kind of winds to express them.In this way, we try to encourage people to say out loud their feeling. To give people a sence of “awareness.”
Is not people do not want to seek help but they don’t “aware ” of it.
We use different materials to present people’s complex emotion, and we did a test for people to feel which material is could transform to what kind of emotion.In this project, we contribute five different emotions which is “happy,” “sad,” “excited,” “angry” and “anxious.” Each os the emotion are using from the materials which is foil, tissue papper, matal, baking paper and bamboo.
