Alzheimer's Disorder
Broadsheet Design
This installation is a contained sensory experience on the subject of Alzheimer’s disorder. This illness is an irreversible, progressive brain disease that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills, and eventually even the ability to carry out the simplest tasks.
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia among older people. Dementia is the loss of cognitive functioning—thinking, remembering, and reasoning—to such an extent that it interferes with a person’s daily life and activities.
The Experience
People will enter through a single entrance with light switches surrounding the inner walls and incandescent light bulb are suspended from the ceiling by their cables, providing the illumination to the whole room. The light switches will contain electric servo motors which turn them on and off in a randomly generated computer sequence, as well as the lights they are connected to.
A part of Alzheimer's is trying to create sense of memories their memory.
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia among older people. Dementia is the loss of cognitive functioning—thinking, remembering, and reasoning—to such an extent that it interferes with a person’s daily life and activities.
The Experience
People will enter through a single entrance with light switches surrounding the inner walls and incandescent light bulb are suspended from the ceiling by their cables, providing the illumination to the whole room. The light switches will contain electric servo motors which turn them on and off in a randomly generated computer sequence, as well as the lights they are connected to.
A part of Alzheimer's is trying to create sense of memories their memory.
The random nature of the electrically operated switches along with the lights switches themselves on and off it to create a feeling of fear and uncomfortable environment, mirroring how an Alzheimer’s sufferer can feel. This feeling is emphasized by the fact there are only three of switches there are bulbs, so it will add to the confusion and messy.
The Ceiling Design
The ceiling design used many lines which arrange in a chaotic with a question mark. After the bulb switches on, the floor will display the shadow of the messy line and the question mark. This is a ways to show the Alzheimer’s was making their life feel messy and nervous.
The whole experience is not just about the particular ritual of light switch toggling, but more an attempt to portray the sense of anxiety that an Alzheimer’s sufferer can feel. The dim light (like a low battery lighting) can show the Alzheimer’s patient is feeling fear on everything in their light. This is because they feel strange. They are worried and scared about every single thing that can happen to them. This is because their brain is degenerative. This installation takes what are common household objects and creates an unsettling and uncomfortable experience with them, providing insight into the life of someone suffering from Alzheimer’s.
The Question Mark Shape
Alzheimer’s is a common cause of dementia. Alzheimer’s patients always forget moments in their life. So, in their mind a question mark always appears. The question mark shape can directly communicate to audiences about Alzheimer’s thinking. By completing the ritual of the light switch, the individual feel less stress. The curve and solid wall can let them feel less fear.
The width radius for the inner is one meter, which was enough space for people to walk. The length for whole shape is 3.5 meter. The inner walls consisted of the imagery atmosphere of a misty and shadowy long journey road. The doorway facing the void’s circular wall, these doorways enable the visitor to see the inner room at the time. This can attract people to walk in to take a look. When the visitor walks in the room, they will feel a drastic contrast to the lonely, blurry and fearful location presented as a Alzheimer’s vision.
The Bulbs
The bulbs are lit up in low lighting. This can create the dim lighting environment in the room to show a blurry feeling environment. When people look at the wall environment design they see the full of meaning about living in an Alzheimer’s world. The visitors will feel blurry, uncomfortable, nervous and fearful like the Alzheimer’s patient.
The Outside Design
The installation is entirely enclosed, and the wall is full of photo frames which were without photos to show the Alzheimer’s patient always forget everything in their life. Furthermore, the outer wall also is stuck with many papers which recorded the things they have to do, as to show how sufferers of Alzheimer’s try to remember their memory in their life. Only by fully entering this installation can you see what is inside their world.
The Atmosphere
To create a mood which automatically evokes a feeling of being alone, the atmosphere of a misty and shadowy long journey road was chosen.
When entering a long journey road, the atmosphere is full of mist to show the Alzheimer's patient will actually feel blurred and fear during their life. They feel alone, because they can't remember anyone in their life even if they are their parent. So, this can show the lonely feeling of them during their life journey. Still, being human and not used to ways of nature anymore, walking around the area rather clumsily and noisy. Still their presence, invisible as it seems, is confirmed through all kind of different sounds and others signs such as the wind sound.
Therefore the void not only uses a forest’s visual imagery, but also features a sound loop confronting the visitor with a forest’s typical sound landscape.
The Ceiling Design
The ceiling design used many lines which arrange in a chaotic with a question mark. After the bulb switches on, the floor will display the shadow of the messy line and the question mark. This is a ways to show the Alzheimer’s was making their life feel messy and nervous.
The whole experience is not just about the particular ritual of light switch toggling, but more an attempt to portray the sense of anxiety that an Alzheimer’s sufferer can feel. The dim light (like a low battery lighting) can show the Alzheimer’s patient is feeling fear on everything in their light. This is because they feel strange. They are worried and scared about every single thing that can happen to them. This is because their brain is degenerative. This installation takes what are common household objects and creates an unsettling and uncomfortable experience with them, providing insight into the life of someone suffering from Alzheimer’s.
The Question Mark Shape
Alzheimer’s is a common cause of dementia. Alzheimer’s patients always forget moments in their life. So, in their mind a question mark always appears. The question mark shape can directly communicate to audiences about Alzheimer’s thinking. By completing the ritual of the light switch, the individual feel less stress. The curve and solid wall can let them feel less fear.
The width radius for the inner is one meter, which was enough space for people to walk. The length for whole shape is 3.5 meter. The inner walls consisted of the imagery atmosphere of a misty and shadowy long journey road. The doorway facing the void’s circular wall, these doorways enable the visitor to see the inner room at the time. This can attract people to walk in to take a look. When the visitor walks in the room, they will feel a drastic contrast to the lonely, blurry and fearful location presented as a Alzheimer’s vision.
The Bulbs
The bulbs are lit up in low lighting. This can create the dim lighting environment in the room to show a blurry feeling environment. When people look at the wall environment design they see the full of meaning about living in an Alzheimer’s world. The visitors will feel blurry, uncomfortable, nervous and fearful like the Alzheimer’s patient.
The Outside Design
The installation is entirely enclosed, and the wall is full of photo frames which were without photos to show the Alzheimer’s patient always forget everything in their life. Furthermore, the outer wall also is stuck with many papers which recorded the things they have to do, as to show how sufferers of Alzheimer’s try to remember their memory in their life. Only by fully entering this installation can you see what is inside their world.
The Atmosphere
To create a mood which automatically evokes a feeling of being alone, the atmosphere of a misty and shadowy long journey road was chosen.
When entering a long journey road, the atmosphere is full of mist to show the Alzheimer's patient will actually feel blurred and fear during their life. They feel alone, because they can't remember anyone in their life even if they are their parent. So, this can show the lonely feeling of them during their life journey. Still, being human and not used to ways of nature anymore, walking around the area rather clumsily and noisy. Still their presence, invisible as it seems, is confirmed through all kind of different sounds and others signs such as the wind sound.
Therefore the void not only uses a forest’s visual imagery, but also features a sound loop confronting the visitor with a forest’s typical sound landscape.
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