{"id":4780,"date":"2020-04-09T15:58:37","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T19:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/overlooked\/?page_id=4780"},"modified":"2020-04-19T13:24:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T17:24:17","slug":"maria-basile","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/overlooked\/index.php\/about-2\/about\/maria-basile\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Basile"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Proposal Team: Light Up the Day[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1586304106266{padding-left: 25px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”Creating a culture of care is initiating meaningful conversation” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left|color:%23398d63″ use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1586889402755{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;}”][vc_column_text]PERSONAL ESSAY<\/strong><\/p>\n

As designers, part of our job is to solve problems by creating delightful experiences through interactions with the environment of the built world. Our expertise of the human experience allows us to take a different, more empathetic and mindful approach than that of engineers, architects, or scientists. We have a keen eye for observation and awareness and deeply value the user\u2019s point of view. As a result, our perspective tends to bring about new and unexpected solutions when introduced into a new field. In a field such as public health, design\u2019s ability to influence the emotional and psychological experiences of the user can be applied to improving a person\u2019s emotional well-being.<\/p>\n

The series of suicides that occurred on Ohio State parking garages is what began to pull me, as a designer, into the complex public health issue of mental illness and suicide prevention. I couldn\u2019t imagine the pain that those people were going through that would push them to suicidality, and I wanted to do something to help. As a designer, I am an expert on human experiences, so might there be a role I can play in improving the daily experiences of people so they might not reach that level of pain and suffering?<\/p>\n

The Ohio State Mental Health and Suicide Task Force released a report regarding several measures that should be taken to address the issue of mental health on campus, one of which was creating a Culture of Care. A Culture of Care \u201cencompasses a full, concentrated environment by the entire university community to outreach to one another\u201d (\u201cSuicide and Mental Health Task Force: Recommendation Report\u201d 25). In their current state, the campus parking garages are not places that cultivate a culture of care. They are, in fact, non-places. In the book Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity <\/em>by Marc Aug\u00e9, a non-place is described as a place that is \u201cthere to be passed through,\u201d like a freeway or grocery store, and lacks significant meaning to the user. A non-place is set up to \u201ccreate the shared identity\u201d of anyone who passes through, each person contractually binded to the same set of rules, eliminating any sense of individuality (Aug\u00e9 81).<\/p>\n

\u201cA non-place creates neither singular identity nor relations; only solitude and similitude\u201d (83). Being assimilated into the same being as hundreds of others ironically creates a feeling of solitude. It is this feeling of solitude and loneliness that a culture of care is meant to combat. Aug\u00e9 uses the term \u2018anthropological place\u2019 to describe the opposite of a non-place. It is a place that \u201cis formed by individual identities\u201d rather than forcing users into a shared one (81). It has meaning to the user and \u201cis never completely erased\u201d from their mind (64). As designers, we have the power to transform the parking garage from a non-place into a place. A place in which one\u2019s experience does not result in a feeling of solitude, but a sense that their presence has an impact and that they are cared for and valued.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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