17. DESIGN + PERSONAL IDENTITY⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ How can design positively counteract the depersonalising effect of clinical environments?⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ What might be the contemporary ‘totems’ we surround ourselves with to sustain our 'best self’?⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Jimena Bolaños Durman @jimenab is a jeweller & GIA graduate gemologist - here she describes her Quartz amulet made in San Jose, Costa Rica which is on display in Edinburgh as part of >>>> RE(A)D BED EXHIBITION, CITY ART CENTRE, 12 MAY – 8 JULY 2018 >>>>⠀ ⠀ "Just as each quartz point is one of a kind, each setting is built to fit the crystal. I use soft pliable wax to create a setting around the quartz and in the moment it creates a unique setting that fits the feel of each crystal" ⠀ ⠀ ⠀

16. DESIGN + PERSONAL IDENTITY ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ How can design positively counteract the depersonalising effect of clinical environments? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ And what might be the contemporary ‘totems’ we surround ourselves with to sustain our 'best self’? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Misaki Sano @misaki_sano_studio from San Diego’s work is about introspection/self-reflection. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ “It started when I found shells I collected with my father when I was 5 right before he passed away. Attempts to understand my connection to shells have revealed a forgotten past and become an instrument for self-reflection. This object brought light to emotions that were kept hidden and repressed. It led me to further investigate, analyze, and question consciousness. The process of physically revealing the interior and deforming its shape allows me to deconstruct the memories I buried, and visually communicate my curiosity of knowing what is hidden.” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Thank you for sharing this thinking with us Mimi and thanks too 🙏🏻 to @materialsmithing for helping me connect with your work. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ >>>> RE(A)D BED EXHIBITION, CITY ART CENTRE, 12 MAY – 8 JULY 2018 >>>>

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 15. >>>> RE(A)D BED EXHIBITION, CITY ART CENTRE, 12 MAY – 8 JULY 2018 >>>> ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ In the context of how design can positively counteract the depersonalising effect of clinical environments, I explored what contemporary ‘totems’ we might surround ourselves with to sustain our 'best self’. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ My installation features the work of 17 practitioners including Edinburgh-based Costa Rican designer and artist Juli Bolaños Durman @julibd_com ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Pictured is embellished found glass with cuttings and acrylic on paper. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ “This is a one of my sketches that I develop as a part of my visual research. I allow myself the luxury to stop and just flow in the process. The gestures made with paint are a product of this study when developing ideas through play. By giving a second chance to the discarded glass, the glass and the gestures have a dance/ conversation, they collaborate, by sharing this particular moment in time and creating something new.” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ <<<>>> ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #julibolañosdurmanstudio #glassartist #edinburghdesign #costaricandesign #designcurator #bestself #designandidentity #designandhealth #edinburghcityartcentre #artandtheraputicdesign #groupshow

>>>> RE(A)D BED EXHIBITION, CITY ART CENTRE, 12 MAY – 8 JULY 2018 >>>> ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Open all week except Mondays and Tuesdays (museum is closed on these days). ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #designandpersonalidentity

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 14. DESIGN + PERSONAL IDENTITY ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ >>>> RE(A)D BED EXHIBITION, CITY ART CENTRE, 12 MAY – 8 JULY 2018 >>>> ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ These objects pictured almost long to be touched, and are included to represent how patients might find pleasant distraction in clinical environments from the tactile and decorative aspects of design. They were designed and made by Edinburgh artist & designer Frances Priest who describes them as ‘little thought-triggers’ and are originally from her ceramic series Gifts and Occupations – a piece of work first presented in the exhibition Objects of touch & travel (@ScottishGallery 2009) – the work comprised 88 ceramic forms presented on open display as a handling collection. “I really like the idea of carry-cases of objects that travel, itself an object travelling around places as well.” @francesprieststudio Special thanks to @craftscotland for facilitating this loan from their own collection of Frances’ work. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ — Funded by NHS Lothian's Art & Therapeutic Design programme, An outcome of my DCN (Department of Clinical Neuroscience) mentoring residency with @beyondwallsatd Ginkgo (hosted at Edinburgh’s Alt-w LAB) explores how design can positively counteract the depersonalising effect of clinical environments. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I asked: What might be the contemporary ‘totems’ we surround ourselves with to sustain our 'best self’? My installation contains the work of 17 different practitioners around the world. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ <<<>>>

13. DESIGN + PERSONAL IDENTITY⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ >>>> RE(A)D BED EXHIBITION, CITY ART CENTRE, 12 MAY – 8 JULY 2018 >>>>⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Glasgow based designer Stefanie Cheong let me borrow this 'Specimen Ring' (a sample) from her Scottish cairn inspired work, this piece was made using brass and found rocks from Skye, Crail, Lunan Bay, Kinghorn and Lisbon @stefaniecheong @opinproject ⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ —⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Funded by NHS Lothian's Art & Therapeutic Design programme, An outcome of my DCN (Department of Clinical Neuroscience) mentoring residency with Ginkgo (hosted at Edinburgh’s Alt-w LAB) explores how design can positively counteract the depersonalising effect of clinical environments.⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I asked: What might be the contemporary ‘totems’ we surround ourselves with to sustain our 'best self’? My installation contains the work of 17 different practitioners around the world.⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ <<<>>>⠀

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 12. DESIGN + PERSONAL IDENTITY ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ >>>> RE(A)D BED EXHIBITION, CITY ART CENTRE, 12 MAY – 8 JULY 2018 >>>> ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Plasticine Berber House by Edinburgh architect Akiko Kobiyashi @akikomak “The model uses three curved flat pieces of brightly coloured plasticine to suggest a house-like enclosure reminiscent of Berber Architecture. House models can be symbolic of the body, or a niche in one's mind - a shell and a hollow. This piece, rather than being a solid block model of a house, makes a space that you can imagine inhabiting and cultivating. The material is deliberately delicate and ephemeral, being one of a series of exploratory maquettes. It's resulting imperfect finish is not important so long as the form is clear. It could be screwed up into a ball at any time, and a new model house (or anything else) made.” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ — ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Funded by NHS Lothian's Art & Therapeutic Design programme, An outcome of my DCN (Department of Clinical Neuroscience) mentoring residency with Ginkgo (hosted at Edinburgh’s Alt-w LAB) explores how design can positively counteract the depersonalising effect of clinical environments. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I asked: What might be the contemporary ‘totems’ we surround ourselves with to sustain our 'best self’? My installation contains the work of 17 different practitioners around the world. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ <<<>>>

11. DESIGN + PERSONAL IDENTITY ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Glasgow designer Adam Henderson @adamhendersonjewellery on his pin Big Love: “I have always been asked if the jewellery I make is for men, whilst making previous works the idea of it being gender specific has never entered my mind. As a rebuttal to this question I have decided to make a body of work entitled ‘Jewellery For Men’, that isn’t ‘manly’ at all and is inspired by things that the stereotypical manly man does not do, primarily, strong displays of emotion. The 'Big Love' brooch is the physical embodiment of shouting your love from rooftops.” >>>> RE(A)D BED EXHIBITION, CITY ART CENTRE, 12 MAY – 8 JULY 2018 >>>> ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I asked: What might be the contemporary ‘totems’ we surround ourselves with to sustain our 'best self’? My installation within the exhibition above contains the work of 17 different practitioners around the world.

⠀ 10. DESIGN + PERSONAL IDENTITY ⠀ Here are items I selected to show how design can positively counteract the depersonalising effect of clinical environments.⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ >>>> RE(A)D BED EXHIBITION, CITY ART CENTRE, 12 MAY – 8 JULY 2018 >>>>⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Left to right:⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Isabel Quiroga, b.1978⠀ Product Designer⠀ —⠀ Treetable⠀ Powder coated steel, solid wood, brass, acrylic stone⠀ Amsterdam⠀ @studioisabelquiroga⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Natalie J Wood, b. 1990⠀ Ceramicist⠀ —⠀ Detsu⠀ Parian / Ceramic ⠀ Edinburgh⠀ @nataliejwooddesigns⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ NAVET ⠀ —⠀ Clamp Tray ⠀ Stockholm⠀ @navetsthlm⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ D-BROS⠀ —⠀ Hope Forever Blossoming⠀ Acrylic⠀ Tokyo⠀ @dbros_official1995⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Present & Correct⠀ —⠀ Happy Notebook⠀ Die cut in Berlin⠀ @presentandcorrect⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Milan ⠀ —⠀ P1 Pen⠀ Girona⠀ @milan.1918⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Muji⠀ —⠀ Aroma Diffuser⠀ @ukmuji⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ HAY⠀ —⠀ Hay Be Quiet! ⠀ Earplugs on⠀ Parian Shortbread Dish ⠀ by Natalie J Wood⠀ Denmark/Edinburgh⠀ @haydesign