Certain unanswered questions - kind of sorted.

After talking to people i inferred that there are essentially Three conditions for a placebo to happen:

1. Expectancy effect

2. Classical conditioning

3. Motivation

Interpretations of a placebo

“Perceiving a reality but questioning that reality, whether it is real or pretentious” - Nupur

“Placebo – something not real, pretends to be something and poses itself to be real…End result – a placebo takes place.” – Mr. Ravindra

3 questions to be addressed, which will eventually give, rise to the form:

1) Placebo addressing what? – Stress related problems and people (defining the audience/context)

What’s ironic about a placebo is that, it is something not real, but makes people believe it is real. And this effect is one of the most exploited in therapy.

2) The Form is going to be the link that makes the placebo happen

Using art in therapy as a resource – may understand how art therapy (color, image, construction of an image, as an experience) is used in a more scientific way to understand how imagery can trigger off my own form, which is going attempt a placebo.

My placebo is going to address stress.

So, according to the three conditions mentioned above, I need to create a condition (stress related) where the need to address it will arise, creating a condition for a placebo to take place.

How is the problem of stress addressed in art therapy?

What is that a person is made to talk, draw, think, act?

How is the person made to express his/her stress?

3) What does the form do?

Help me use my learning and constraints in an efficient manner to meet the goal of creating a placebo.

Make people believe their stress is gone by creating an illusion.

The big question: Why am I doing this? Using my learning of art, design, space, and electronics in a very therapeutic approach to create an installation on placebo?

My constraints:

Color

Image/constructed image

Light

Touch (may be)

Premise: Art in therapy

1. What is art in therapy?

2. How is it used?

3. How can color be used to tap into the subconscious. Application?

4. How is stress handled in art therapy?

5. What are the ways /devices to express stress in art therapy?

6. When and how use of / need to construct of image in order to express one’s feeling?

7. Do patients construct the images?

8. The therapist who shows pictures to understand their state of mind? Either way,

9. How can Color be used to control mood/build up to expect an emotion? (climax music?)

10. How/in what ways a patient’s state of being is identified?

11. While practicing art in therapy– looking at color, image construction.

12. What are the ways in which color be used as stress management/relief?