As an MFA thesis project at ArtCenter College of Design, this project aims to initiate further discussions and innovations around hope as an essential element in health care. It takes the placebo effect as a critical lens to explore the social and cultural processes that create hope in a medical context. Through three narrative-based experimental designs, the work argues for models of medical treatment that include space for hope, and that do not privilege biomedical knowledge as the most important kind of knowledge for patients to have. Please view the link for more details.
