Another Pill to Swallow, Kirsty Deakin.
An installation that inspects how music can be a supplement for medicine for people with dementia. Kirtsy’s work unearths the risks that come with current medications used to treat dementia and the effect this has on the NHS. She looks at whether there are more ethical solutions to treating dementia with less rick to the patient and their physical and mental health.
20 Minute Tourism, Sam Fleetwood
A satirical print installation commenting on the second high-speed rail line, HS2, currently under construction in the UK. Born from the destruction of Sam’s hometown to make way for the £150bn line from London to Birmingham, this piece is centred on the fact that a journey on HS2 is only 20 minutes quicker than the existing Chiltern Railways line.
INTERSPECT
MA COMMUNICATION DESIGN
FALMOUTH UNIVERSITY
05 – 13 MAY 2023
Interspect showcases a range of student-led data-design projects, that experientially communicate a diverse selection of contemporary stories, messages and perceptions of the self.
With the aim to confront and deform inertly objective perceptions of data, an international cohort of MA Communication Design students at Falmouth University investigate a range of human-related data sets, transforming riddle into revelation and insight into impact. Born from this are meaningful, and at times, provocative stories and experiences on the significance, cost and actualisation of being human in contemporary society.
Some of the exhibiting designers extract their insights from social conditioning and behavioural influence delving into a wide range of themes including; capitalism, mortality, gender roles, cults, species bias, opinion, vanity and fake-news. Meanwhile, others peel back the veneer of thoughtful innovation and de facto technologies, inspecting significant case studies including; cobalt mining, the HS2 train line, crypto-currency, data surveillance and sneaker culture.
The most ancient of human behaviours is curiosity - it is the fundamental enabler of human progress, knowledge, and our survival. The works exhibited here aim to show how curiosity can be a tool for unearthing poignant discoveries of the human condition. The exhibition title, a new verb coined by the designers, is a combination of the prefix ‘inter’, meaning between, among and during, and ‘inspect’, meaning to view closely, critically and curiously. ‘Interspect’ therefore can be defined as: to laterally investigate in a curious and critical manner for the purpose of exposing undefined grey areas of a problem or concept. The works exhibited interrogate these grey areas; they are interspective - curious on a deeper, and more actively conscious level.
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