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STOMALE! represents the work carried out for the Master’s thesis project in Systemic Design at the Politecnico di Torino and carried out under the supervision of Prof. Chiara Lorenza Remondino.
The aim of the thesis was to:
Deepen the contribution that systemic design can have within complex social and psychological projects, identifying the areas of intervention of the designer and using data visualisation as an informative and educational tool.
Explore the field of mental health and its evolution in the last years after the Covid19 pandemic, identifying its salient features.
Identify the critical issues within the context of mental health management and the opportunities in the project.
The result of the work is an educational laboratory that uses psychological support and cultural realities of the city to inform young people on certain sensitive issues.
The output of the laboratory is a fanzine made by local designers and young people that uses Data Visualisation as informative medium.
The first step of the work consisted on a research phase analysing of the juvenile psychological context two years after the pandemic, defining causes and consequences and representing the data collected through data visualisation.
The research phase was lead to a designing phase, with the proposal of a model that stimulates the construction of a cohesive city community for a correct information and a new more efficient management of the psychological malaise.
The result is n educational format of an informative and creative laboratory that uses a multidisciplinary network made of a varied set of knowledge and skills (hard and soft) related to the different professional figures present in the social context in analysis and uses data visualisation as information medium.
The final outpput of the workshop is a dissertation book that narrate the research work carried out, including both the theoretical component to which we have relied in the study of information design, data representation and psychological consequences related to the pandemic period caused by Covid19, and the designing phase, through the development of the format and all the process behind the designing of the vol.0 of the fanzine and the brand identity.
The project uses the teaching of figures such as Alberto Cairo, Andy Kirk and Giorgia Lupi, studying how form and function affect each other (the visualization wheel) and how the representation of data often develops on multiple levels, telling not a single story, but a series of stories linked together (the non-linear storytelling). This study proved indispensable for the realisation of data representations in support of the work done.
The systemic and sustainable contribution of the project does not focus on intervention in a specific supply chain as is mainly the case of systemic design projects, but aims to create an innovative and sustainable local network that can take advantage of the social value already existing in the city for a more optimal development of the well-being of the individual and the community.
