It’s Been a Year
For my senior thesis, I wanted to create something tactile in response to finishing our final year of school fully remote. Through interviews, reflections, and infographics, I built a time capsule to preserve how we were feeling as a collective.
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I invited peers to document a day in their life and reflect on their experience after a year of living through a pandemic.
This capsule brings their responses together as a physical archive of that time.
This capsule brings their responses together as a physical archive of that time.
Each gradient represents someone’s day in the pandemic. Each color reflect what they felt, hour by hour.
I designed a template with Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions to track each person’s day.
This allowed me to create a shared vocabulary to visualize their feelings. After collecting this data, I translated it into a visual system to compare how similar our days really were, even from far away.
This allowed me to create a shared vocabulary to visualize their feelings. After collecting this data, I translated it into a visual system to compare how similar our days really were, even from far away.
Each participant answered five questions. Their responses were compiled into booklets, offering a deeper understanding of how we were living, coping, and connecting during that moment in time.
1_–_What_is_something_you_have_learned_this_year?
2_–_Did_you_acquire_a_new_hobby?
3_–_What_is_something_you’re_looking_forward_to?
4_–_Do_you_have_a_moment_you’ll_never_forget_from_this_experience?
5_–_What’s_something_you_think_about_every_day?
2_–_Did_you_acquire_a_new_hobby?
3_–_What_is_something_you’re_looking_forward_to?
4_–_Do_you_have_a_moment_you’ll_never_forget_from_this_experience?
5_–_What’s_something_you_think_about_every_day?
Each submission included a documentation of their routine and emotions for a day.
I translated this data into a visual system to highlight common threads across everyone’s day.
I translated this data into a visual system to highlight common threads across everyone’s day.
Curious_about_how_emotions_were_tracked?
I invited 21 students to document their routine and emotions for a day with a template I designed. Using Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions as a guide to create a shared vocabulary and visualize those feelings.
Some of the responses I got
Each response became a visual system: a timeline of emotions, color-coded by hour. Placing them side by side showed how our days unfolded together.
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To explore how we were feeling day-to-day, I asked 21 students to track their daily routines and emotions using a template I designed, which included Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions as a guide.