SHOUT OUT LOUD ON THE VIRTUAL MARKET PLACE
Also I turned back to the tools I could use online for communication with people to build up my own library of resources. I created an online survey with 12 questions and in the end almost 80 people participated doing the questionnaire in the stretch of one month. Like this I found out more about the personal backgrounds and experiences people had had in the past with depression. I also was interested in perception of color and music in connection with depression as I kept the lack of the sensual I found in the existing media in the back of my head. This survey was really helpful as I could see that there is definitely an interest in the topic but not the right tool that could eventually help to intermediate between the others and people suffering from depression. I would have never thought so at the start at the time I put it up, but a simple yellow poster - asking: ‘What is your depression?’ - on a door in our studio space at university gave me some very good inspiration and input for a series of visualisations around depression. My first attempt on simplifying the term and the whole theoretical work around it.
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