If you want a creative boost for your wellbeing and online presence, read ‘Remaking, Hope and Wellness through Online Connectivity’ by Emma Collins, who writes about the ideas of remaking using social media to promote making ideas.

With the rise of social media and digital connections becoming more prevalent in our lives as well as climate anxiety, there is a need to understand ways to create deeper, more meaningful connections to one another, the planet, and the things around us. Emma Collins considers how handmaking through digital platforms may offer these connection opportunities and create tactile solutions informed by digital connections that can help combat climate anxiety.

 

Through exploring a making and design approach that can move beyond the social media ‘filter defence’ through collaborative remaking on Instagram, helping people individually and collectively increase our personal (and planetary) well-being.

 

If you are looking to boost your well-being, online presence and creativity read more in Emma’s published paper;

https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/jaah_00118_1

Journal of Applied Arts and Health:

‘Remaking, Hope and Wellness through Online Connectivity’, Emma Collins, published January 23

e.m.collins@brighton.ac.uk

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