Design Aspect of Schizophrenia in Indonesia
Design aspects include how schizophrenia in Indonesia is portrayed in art and design and how design is used to create/innovate products or services to better address the problem.
Evidence indicates the following design features for how Schizophrenia is portrayed in art and literature in Indonesia or globally.
Evidence indicated the following design features for how creativity and innovation have been used to better address the problem of Schizophrenia.
-On a global level, “The Voices, a black comedy starring Ryan Reynolds, currently in cinemas, has drawn fierce criticism from mental health campaigners. The movie portrays a murderer who is instructed to kill by the voices in his head, more specifically his talking cat.” (Crepaz-Keay, 2015). In many cases, Schizophrenia is portrayed in a wildly inaccurate manner which usually involves a large degree of violence and/or psychosis.
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-On a very different side of things, Kate Fenner, who was merely 17 when she was diagnosed with Schizophrenia, uses her artwork as a way of self expression and a coping mechanism for her illness.
"This one crawls out of the vent in my ceiling and makes clicking noises, or I’ll see it crawl out from underneath things" (Fenner, 2010-2017).
"I draw a lot of my hallucinations as drawing helps me deal with it" (Fenner, 2010-2017).
-To view more of her artwork and explanations, visit: https://www.demilked.com/young-schizophrenic-artist-drawing-hallucinations-awkwardapostrophe/
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-"Since the colonial times, Bandung has been one of the modern art capitals of Indonesia. In 1947, two years after declaring its independence from the Netherlands, Indonesia saw the establishment of School of Art and Design at Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB)." (Iskandar, 2017).
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-Although Schizophrenia is terribly misunderstood in Indonesia, Dwinanda Agung Kristianto has found relief in his art as a way of coping with mental illness. "When Dwinanda’s family finally did take him to see a psychiatrist, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. The diagnosis, he says, after the physical symptoms and delusions, was a relief. Dwinanda pulls out a diary from those years, explaining that he wrote a lot during that time." (Senin, 2017).
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-Here is an animation depicting Schizophrenia in a more accurate portrayal than usual: https://www.aparat.com/v/ZFb7n/Schizophrenia_Animatio
"The animation tells the story of Mana, an art gallery manager who suffers from schizophrenia. Through this short animation, we see the contrast between the mental condition of Mana before and after therapy." (Multi Media Design Studio).
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-"The creative discipline of art therapy searches those signs for diagnostic and treatment purposes. But nontechnicians and people not proficient in abnormal psychology also respond to the pressure of another mind's struggle against its vulnerability. Moreover, aesthetic empathy" (Munro, 2002).
At a conference at Cooper Union, sponsored by the National Alliance of Research on Schizophrenia and Depression, they presented a center piece called "Mind Matters", which was a compilation of paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints by artists with brain diseases.
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http://aamh.edu.au/asia-pacific-art-and-mental-health-network/
-"The Asia Pacific Art and Mental Health Network was established to bring together art and mental health leaders from the Asia Pacific region to share experiences and ideas about the role art can play in the promotion of mental health." (Asia Australia Mental Health, 2017). One of the speaker presentations that was included at this conference was “Indonesia Community Care for Schizophrenia – Art Activities”.
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-“Moved by years of struggle for getting his brother a recovery, Bagus is developing Indonesia’s first mental health consumer group called KPSI (Indonesia Community Care for Schizophrenia) since 2007. Through the group, not only that people with schizophrenia are now able to break their own self-stigma, the family could work to take care of their family members and together they get over the burden of public stigma.” (Utomo, 2014).
- Utomo hopes to create Facebook groups for various provinces in Indonesia in order to spread awareness and knowledge about schizophrenia. He works with different partners for the art and mental health, in order to run exhibitions with the potential of a display in the worlds 3rd largest museum/art gallery for people with mental illnesses at Dax Center, in Melbourne.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-11/mangosteens/7921020
-Creativity and Innovation have definitely been used in the proclamation that the tropical Mangosteen fruit could possibly offer a preferable treatment for Schizophrenia.
-"Present day medication for schizophrenia can have some unpleasant side effects, and researchers are hoping that if their trials prove positive, the fruit could be used as a milder treatment for the mental illness." (Guest,2016).
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- “Public space in Indonesia, especially in Jakarta, she said, is not so much the property of the government as it is the property of the people. Indonesian youth see the public space as a canvas that they can express themselves on. They subsequently upload their art to social media sites to reach a wider audience.” (Art Radar, 2017).
-Art therapy is not yet strongly supported in Indonesia, but Barokka hopes that it will catch on more in the near future.
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- This featured Etsy site raises some awareness for schizophrenia but doesn't necessarily portray it appropriately or accurately : https://www.etsy.com/market/schizophrenia
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https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/hide-and-seek/201509/mad-genius-schizophrenia-and-creativity
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-What many people do not realize, is that even if a disease does not directly affect them, it is more than likely affecting someone who they know or care about. For example, - “Many more highly creative people, while not themselves suffering from schizophrenia, have close relatives who do or did. Albert Einstein’s son suffered from schizophrenia, as did Bertrand Russell’s son and James Joyce’s daughter.” (Burton, 2015).
-However, it should also be acknowledged that many people suffering from Schizophrenia or other mental illnesses, may be some of the most creative and successful people, in spite of their disease, such as Josh Nash.