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    Exploring a New World of Sadness

    An insight into contemporary sickness subcultures

    Institut für Designforschung (IDE)

    Research project on how aesthetics and the representation of the psychological suffering of today’s youth has changed in the world of digital transformation.

    Mental health currently evolves its own tribes, aeshetics and native terms, providing its own peculiar possibilities of staging and discussing mental issues. The popular «sick style» refers particularly to the teenagers of the Generation Z who use social media as a self-evident part of their social life. In their selfies, statements, pic- tures, videos or memes they experiment with new forms and formats to deal with their inner experiences with- out pathologizing and stigmatizing them. In our ongoing research we are currently trying to investigate and de- termine some of the narratives and aesthetics that char- acterize how adolescents debate about mental health in the digital space. By decoding the information encoded in their pictures and stories we are trying to make the implicit issues and needs more approachable.

    Details

    • Research Focus
      • FRTI Trends & Identity
    • Project Lead
      • Judith Mair (FRTI)
    • Team
      • Francis Müller (FRTI)
      • Angel Rose Schmocker (FRTI)
      • Daniel Süß (ZHAW Angewandte Psychologie)
      • Isabel Willemse (ZHAW Angewandte Psychologie)
    • Cooperations
      • Stiftung Pro Juventute
    • Duration

      01.03. – 30.09.2019

    • Financing
      • Gesundheitsförderung Schweiz (01.03. – 30.09.2019)
    • Research Approaches
      • Basic research
      • Artistic-scientific research
    • Disciplines

      Design

    • Keywords

      Mental Health

    • Related Projects
      • «Do you care?» (follow-up project)

    Output

    • Vorträge, Referate

      Mair, Judith & Stetter, Bitten (2019): «So Sad Today ⁄ New Waves of Death». Global Pop Cultures. Moving Beyond the High–Low, East–West Divide. 29.07.2019, FS 2019. Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto. Online unter: http://pc.kyoto-seika.ac.jp/cl/scpopcultures/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2019/07/SharedCampus-GlobalPopCultures-2019-EN.pdf.

    • Vorträge, Referate

      Schmocker, Angel & Mair, Judith (2018): «Do You Care?». Tag der Forschung. Research Slam. 30.11.2018, HS 2018. Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Zürich. Online unter: https://www.zhdk.ch/forschung/tag-der-forschung.

    • Medienresonanz

      Schmocker, Angel Rose (2019): «Feminismus und Mental Health – Vorzeigepaar unserer digitalen Identitätsbildung?. Sick Style Teil 3». In: Sturm und Drang (Hg.): Sturm und Drang, Hamburg: Besprechung von: Sturm und Drang. Online Media. Schmocker, Angel Rose. Online unter: https://sturmunddrang.de/magazine/feminismus-und-mental-health-vorzeigepaar-unserer-digitalen-identitaetsbildung/?fbclid=IwAR3pMiJ5xvMqILrLn4iDHKTFtqeRl-2eP.

    • Medienresonanz

      Schmocker, Angel Rose (2019): «The style of sickness. Eine Analyse von Emotion und Leid in sozialen Medien». Sturm und Drang, 04.04.2019. Hamburg: Besprechung von: Sturm und Drang. Online Media. Schmocker, Angel Rose. Online unter: https://sturmunddrang.de/magazine/the-style-of-sickness/.