Role of Pop-culture & Sound
Few months down through our research I walked passed these posters down the hallways at CCA and, within our team, we were studying the popular culture and media in the city and America.
As we spent more time learning about the medium of radio and stories shared, podcasts became an important stream to learn about mental health.
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We found that several institutions like NAMI made radio podcasts series accessible which would communicate about depression and success stories of overcoming it and help normalize it within the community.
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My teammate, Mahtab lives an hour and half away from our school so she took up the project of studying podcasts while driving her way around!
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Key learnings and insights
Listening to the The Hilarious World of Depression: A podcast about having open and honest conversations about depression with very funny people.
We learned that since depression is a "serious" illness, this technique was about making people laugh at it and make it easier to deal with.
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Listening to Terrible, Thanks for asking by Nora McInerny, which is a podcast about sharing and overcoming grief, we learned that through such experiences being shared, it is helping to normalize how we perceive grief and potentially lower depression when faced by tragic incidents.
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Watching Perks of being a Wallflower, we learned about emotional triggers of early childhood incidents.
Around the same time, CCA initiated a Radio station and was looking for more ideas to cross-pollinate learnings and build community! So we began ideating as well within the team, brainstorming the potential of a Mental Health podcast series and met Kevin the founder of the CCA Radio station
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Their current podcast show is in collaboration with Nicole Mueller in career development to have a podcast takeover about her departments " Building an Artist's Life" events series, focused on skill-building and sustainability for fine artists.
The CCA "podcast takeover" of CCA Radio would involve streaming a series of art/business podcasts throughout the week (like Beyond the Studio, and Art Practical's Living & Working series). Nicole is one of the founders of Beyond the Studio.
Other resources for podcast streaming
18 episodes
Road to Resilience brings you stories and insights to help you thrive in a challenging world. From fighting burnout and trauma, to building resilient families and communities, we explore what’s possible when science meets the human spirit. Powered by the best experts in the world.
Technology companies are locked in an arms race to seize your attention, and that race is tearing apart our shared social fabric. In this inaugural podcast from the Center for Humane Technology, hosts Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin will expose the hidden designs that have the power to hijack our attention, manipulate our choices and destabilize our real world communities. They’ll explore what it means to become sophisticated about human nature, by interviewing hypnotists, magicians, experts on the dynamics of cults and election hacking and the powers of persuasion. How can we escape this unrelenting race to the bottom of the brain stem?
A family rift. Debt. Finding a career you love. Heartbreak. Tap into 3,000 years of Buddhist wisdom to find real solutions to life’s problems. Journalist Jihii Jolly explores her own Nichiren Buddhist community through the lives of everyday people—mechanics, CEOs, mothers, artists—who are applying the teachings of Buddhism to win over their most aggravating problems. Jihii has written for The New York Times and The Atlantic, and is a member of the Buddhist community Soka Gakkai International (SGI).
One Question: Ten Minutes. Every week we sit down and dedicate 10 minutes to discussing a single question related to design. Co-hosted by Design Leader Kristian Simsarian and CCA Interaction Design students Curran Dwyer and Bibiana Bauer, this podcast explores answers to everything from "What are the origins of Interaction Design?" to "How do we design for data and privacy?"
Audiowalks for CCA
This idea for audio walks as immersive gift experiences came up in a class I took called Fostering human connections taught by Michael Epstein and Catherine Herdlick and further explored in Story class as well with Denise Gershbein and Rochelle Ardesher.
Used a rubric to evaluate and discuss the fostering of human connection through this piece of work.
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