PROJECT ITEMS & MEDIA
METANOIA
BY SANEM TOKYAYBRIEF
Are you ready for an experience where we can only discover ourselves without paying attention to certain questions such as what is meditation, how it is done, do we have to close your eyes? As a designer who has regularly integrated meditation into my life for the last 3 years, I produced Metanoia when I was talking about how I can combine design and meditation, and how I can enable people to bring meditation to their lives without any right / wrong.
RESEARCH
Meditation is a practice that is done with the intention of staying in the present, and opens a space for understanding both life and our own feelings and thoughts. Meditation is often done to raise awareness and understand the mind. Meditation opens the door to a life in which we make more conscious choices because realization brings freedom to choose. In addition, it increases focus, reduces stress and anxiety, makes it easier to live with challenging emotions and helps to enjoy life more. There are several known unreal rules regarding meditation. First rule of meditation is that it has no rule. Meditation is not just something you need to do while sitting in a place with your eyes closed. For some, cooking or even drinking coffee can be considered as meditation. The important thing is to be able to realize you are living in the moment. As a person who has been meditating regularly for 3 years, I think that my mental health is regular and that I am a stress-free person due to meditation.
VIEW THE MOODBOARDFUNCTION
Metanoia aims to explain meditation to individuals as an interactive meditation center. Nobody can get quick results by meditating right away. The aim here is to bring awareness to people. Maybe you've tried or never tried meditation before, but you are interested. You can use Metanoia as a good excuse to get started. Unlike other meditation applications or videos, when you enter this area, you will be able to move motion graphics that you will watch with certain movements with your body. This will enable the person to be involved in the meditation practice.
CONCEPT
Metanoia is an Interactive meditation system that shows meditation is not just standing still for a long time, and meditation is a system created to involve the person in this action. With Metanoia meditation will be interactive with visuals that will move according to the movements of the user. My most important goal is to change the way people view meditation. Thanks to Metanoia; I aim to change the perspective towards meditation of those who have not meditated before, those who do not do it regularly, who have no idea about meditation, those who have prejudice, those who do it regularly etc. After the interaction I’m not expecting them to integrate meditation to their
ENVIRONMENT DESIGN
One of the most important parts of the project was the design of the environment where the experience would take place. While designing this area, I was inspired by the space in Refik Anadol's Archive Dreaming project. The area that the user can see and experience in 360 degrees will be reflected by the projection mapping method if it takes place in real life. The length of the wall will be 3m.
INTERACTION DESIGN
In order to integrate the user with the experience, changes will occur by certain body movements in the animations reflected. These movements are; raising both hands, raising right and left hands, getting closer to the wall.
ANIMATION
The reference points while I was designing animation are kaleidoscope and mandala. The animation moves in harmony with the sound and music I use on the back. I preferred to use vibrant colors to keep the person in the moment and draw attention.
Bu projede yer alan meditasyon ve müziklerin hakları Meditopia’ya ait olup, 5846 sayılı Fikir ve Sanat Eserleri Kanunu ve 5237 sayılı Türk Ceza Kanunu kapsamında korunmaktadırlar. Söz konusu içerikler Meditopia’dan izin alınmaksızın değiştirilemez, çoğaltılamaz, yayımlanamaz, dağıtılamaz, umuma iletilemez, başka bir lisana çevrilemez, bütünü veya bir kısmı değiştirilerek veya başka bir suretle herhangi bir mecrada kullanılamaz.
MERCHANDISE ITEMS
Here are the merchandise items created for METANOIA.
MOBILE APPLICATION
Metonoia App was designed for users to book a slot for experience. They can see a suitable time&day slot for themselves. Users can also check frequently asked questions, shop which have merchandise items, contact numbers and most importantly they can find the answer for “what is metanoia?”.