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.
Each participant answered five questions.
Their responses were compiled into booklets that captured how we were living, coping, and connecting during that 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?