Design & The Zombie Dawn is an exploration into our understanding of social complexities through a fictional narrative; exploring how verbal and non verbal communications interact, to giver fuller understanding, through ‘The Universal Facial
Language’.
NARRATIVE SUMMARY: With the malfunction of technological applications in 2020, commuters of London began developing a neurological condition affecting their ability to defferentiate facial features, making it impossible to
detect emotional cues.
An Anthropological Report of Luminescent Prosopagnosia
A lack of facial features means that the facial emotions becomes impossible to understand. With over 60 percent of human communication being visual cues, not being able to recognise emotional cues throws up many possibilities for redesigning complex social change.
NOTE: This disorder does not impair speech or hearing. Therefore, communication can be regained by over exaggerating expressions and mannerisms using body movement and hand gestures. This disorder has restricted the sufferers from having an emotional connection with the people around them.
The Universal Facial Sign Language has been established to aid communication throughout daily life to reduce the feeling of isolation. Adapted from the facial expressions for the corresponding emotion, the abstracted expression communicates the intended idea without resembling a face- eliminating the problem presented to the luminescent prosopagnosiac.
The Universal Facial Language Dictionary
Expression for anger
Expression for anger demonstrated
The Universal Facial Sign Language used in a social situation
In Collaboration with: Nicola Bradley, Amelia Dray, Matthew Edgerson, Sarah Smith & Eli Merison
