A diary study. This is how I feel today
Inspired by the work of Andersen et al [1] “Games in emotional space’’, I created this diary study to discreetly touch on intimate issues related to emotions by employing, instead of verbal communication, crafting activities. I am interested in gaining insights about how crafting activities can work as a tool for self-reflection, how aware people are about their feelings, how easy or how difficult they can name their feelings, how the participants use the materials based on their mood and what does it mean for them to have a token of memory of their feelings. 1.Andersen, K., Jacobs, M., & Polazzi, L. (2003). Playing games in the emotional space. In Funology (pp. 151-163). Springer, Dordrecht.
The provided materials to the participants.
Creations by one of the participants.
“I thought that would be interesting to have the exact same materials every day and perform the same task following the process of Making, Destroying, and Remaking. I think this philosophy is a cultural approach in some eastern countries. It would be nice to wake up the next day and see the emotion of the previous day and be able to reconstruct your feeling as a way of developing yourself.” P1 says
Creations by another participant.
Taking a closer look at the created objects, you can see in some of them the carrying traces of the hands that made them. I believe that this relationship between objects, traces and body is very significant and can create intimate dialogues between the worn objects and the people who wear them.