Project Description: It is a pop-up mobile space with live music, video projection and performance. The project focuses on the mental health issues of modern society and is inspired by behavioral therapy and psychoanalysis. We invite people from different backgrounds to gather and share.
As the scenic designer of the project, I want to discover how perceptions change and influenced
by the physical space.
I am researching about the relationship between happiness and environment and behavior therapy.
Article 1: PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS － Joerg Chet Tremmel
Important points:
- wellbeing (happiness and satisfaction) is more important than capital
- fulfilling needs more important than desires, needs, and dreams
- the majority and the poorest people’s highest priority is to satisfy the basic human needs - air, water, food, and a place to live - no matter in which culture
- Human Development Index(HDI) is the best method to research and analyze wellbeing
- Human development should not be limited to economic growth but should include a widening of choices and the creation of an environment that allows people to live long, healthy, and productive.
- 3 goals of wellbeing: long and healthy life, ability to get knowledge, and ability to maintain a decent standard of life
- The social comparison is the obstacle to happiness
- The Latin American country has high happiness level due to optimism and failure or success are seem to one’s responsibility in the US.
- HDI has grown from 1820 to now, but in the future, the greenhouse effect and nuclear waste are causing additional death.
- Climate change is one of the greatest poetical threats. People-made continues to create an imbalance in the ecosystem.If people today refuse to act, animals and plants will die in the near future. The justice must become integral to today’s policy decisions.
Questions:
- What do people need in today’s society? anything changes from the past? What do people in America need after the 2016 election? What do people from China and Cuba need?
- How do pollution and climate change make a change in human’s basic needs?
Article 2: The Secret Recipe for Success in the Arts
Important points:
- The United States’s society is a meritocracy
- The American myth is that if we work hard and so a good job, we will be rewarded. The myth is internalized capitalism value as human beings is tied to our work and our earnings.
- Another American myth is that we are all each other’s competition in a zero-sum game. This belief makes us isolate ourselves.We start to pull back, hide into our shells and don’t share information with one another.
- The third myth is that work harder, be better and superior, spin faster, and do it all on your own.
- What is necessary for artists is a reliable shelter, food, water, a hospitable place, clothing, healthcare and basic materials for making arts.
- What do people living in the United States need is the universal healthcare, free education for all from preschool through graduate school, affordable housing for all, redistribution of wealth through taxation, redistribution of political roles to demographic groups, and workers take ownership roles in the organizations
- Winning the game of capital does;t improve anyone else’s chances.
Questions:
- Without earning, do we have no value? Do we work harder and better and we will get out of poverty and earn more money? Is it a myth or a truth?
- Also, China is a communist country; however, the majority don’t have the basic needs, such as universal healthcare, free education, affordable housing and so on. How is Cuba?
Article 3: Therapy for Anxiety Disorders Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Exposure Therapy, and Other Options
Important points:
- Cognitive behavioral therapy and exposure therapy, are particularly beneficial to an anxiety disorder.
- Therapy can help to uncover the underlying causes of worries and fears; learn how to relax; look at situations in new, less frightening ways
- People with anxiety disorders, negative ways of thinking fuel the negative emotions of anxiety and fear.
- Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is to change patterns of thinking or behavior that are behind people's difficulties, and so change the way they feel. Process: Identify the negative thought - challenge the negative thought - replace the negative thought.
- Anxiety isn’t a pleasant sensation, so it’s only natural to avoid it and escape from it.
- Exposure therapy is play like a game and exposes people to the situations or objects triggering fear repeatedly and step by step. Process: Learning relaxation skills - make a plan - work through the steps
Questions:
- how to combine the therapy process with a performance piece?
- what kind of environment does this therapy need?
- Does this therapy have to be done individually or can be executed in a group?
- Do I need to create a safety space as an air bubble for my audience to escape from the reality as a happy resort? or I want my audience to learn methods and apply them to their own life so they can face their fear and anxiety in a better way?
Work cited
Clements, Alexis. “The secret recipe for success in the arts.” Los Angeles Review of Books, 26 Sept. 2017, lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-secret-recipe-for-success-in-the-arts/#!
Tremmel, Joerg Chet. “PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.” RSA Journal, vol. 157, no. 5547, 2011, pp. 30–33. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41380114.
“Therapy for Anxiety Disorders.” Therapy for Anxiety Disorders: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Exposure Therapy, and Other Options, www.helpguide.org/articles/anxiety/therapy-for-anxiety-disorders.htm.
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