Building wellness through interactive art and tech

Addressing the increase in loneliness and mental health issues that surrounded the pandemic, chromic duo led a team of experts at Purdue University in Art, Technology, and Clinical Psychology to bridge the gap between the arts and sciences and create an installation and experience for students to find a sense of beauty, respite, and play.

“What’s exciting is that students, faculty, and staff, along with Innovators-In-Residence chromic duo, collaborated for the past year to code, create animations, write music, and develop questions that culminates with a street art installation that speaks to the human condition”- Todd Wetzel, Assistant Vice Provost of Student Life and Executive Director at Purdue Convocations and Hall of Music Productions

Our role

As Innovators-in-Residence and Producers, we:

• Leveraged our skills as Artists, Storytellers, Sound Designers, and Technologists, to spearhead a campus-wide initiative that gave Students Arts as a Tool for engaging with their Mental Health

• Explored new ways to tackle the complex challenges facing the campus with a multidisciplinary team (UX, Psychology, Tech, Music, Student Life)

• Adapted a creative and iterative approach, rapidly testing prototypes with students and faculty in workshops and making the user experience smoother for

• Designed an innovative digital user interface that resulted in a 25% increase in student engagement and satisfaction.

Our impact

On-site installation on campus integrating research on mental health + wellbeing with art and technology to create a sense of beauty, respite, and play via an inventive mobile phone interface. Viewers become participants in an expressive journey that creates community while also delivering powerful supportive connections where they may be needed.

Go behind the scenes here.