Experiential Design, Emotions Science, and Empathic Relationships

Designing Emotional Language

What if you could see the dance of language?

Consider writing down your 8 favorite letters.

Then, consider seeing the results from hundreds of other people's feelings on letters. What if you saw that many folks in your culture felt more or less the same as you, about those same letters? We turned those individual letter feelings into movements as interpreted by an amalgamation of dancers across disciplines, to explore the secret life of an emotional alphabet.

This early documentary takes you through our team interviewing hundreds of people, researching what specific letters meant to them. Then interviews professional dancers, and the creation of a choreography based on the most culturally collective feeling possible, of each letter of the alphabet. This choreography was programmed to be readable by Kinect camera, still in its first years.