INTRODUCTION
For my degree project, I decided to use visual communication to stimulate a reflection around one of the most discussed childhood psychiatric diagnosis of the last decades, ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). My research ended up in a video installation, which combines both visual and auditive means of communication to shortly narrate three significative real stories on some dissimilar approaches to the same problem.
RESEARCH & PROJECT
In Italy, 1,2% of the population between 6 -18 years old has been diagnosed with ADHD, Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder. 4000 of these children are under pharmaceutical treatment for the cure of this disorder.
How do parents react in front of this diagnosis?
The only way to answer this question was meeting some families which deal with the situation daily, having children that have been diagnosed with ADHD, and listening to their stories. Through my project, I decided to translate, using animations and audios, the three most significative stories I collected, the perception of their children’s behavior at home and at school. The installation was built inside a room where the spectator could enter and feel involved on two levels of perception: the user could, in fact, hear three differ- ent audio playing simultaneously, shortly narrating the stories of the different families through real sentences told by parents. While the audios were playing, animations were projected from the outside of the structure to its inside.