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CLOSING DOWN THE PAST

"For the first time in my life I could feel that the deep past was never my emotional weight to carry."
- Participant J39 -

PARTICIPANT RESPONSE

EARLY STAGE DESIGN TRIAL - 2018

Feedback suggested the "shape" and the "colour" of the room was important and that the "three wall design" allowed for a "pathway out". Additionally: "...it provided space for me to work through it by myself" and "...the trauma I held on to was a feeling not a thought".

This latter comment led to a consideration of an 'embodied cognition' as the participants voiced their experiencing of an unravelling of their narrative and a shift involving their whole self, with brain body and environment combined. The current study now builds on enactive theory, where perception can be regarded as a motivated activity where people make sense of reality by engaging with it.

THE COGNITIVE SYSTEM

MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY

'Our own body is in the world as the heart is in the organism... it forms within it a system.'

(Clark, C. (1999) Being There - Putting Brain, Body and World Together Again, p.85

INNOVATIVE HCI DESIGN MEETS SCIENCE IN AN IMMERSIVE SETTING

You possess the tools to become inspired and empowered. Never give up on yourself.
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