Our project is focus on reduce social distancing in a simply way, exchange letters.
In a time which the world can’t have physical contact, social media became disclosure of perfect “lives”, messages without affection, vídeo calls whith ‘hi, how are you?’ and sad News where distration became addictve, rejection of your own life, why not bring a hug inside hand written letter?
Studies show that pacients that received letter during the treatment had significant improvement in their clinical condition.
We create a plataforma where you can write, request a letter (with or whitout specific recipientes) or you can register as a support of the project, as a recycle paper company, it has the help of psychologist, psychology majors to screening the letters and volunters tha will put the letter in the paper and send to delivery.
This letter also can be writen and send to professionals that work social isolated like a astronaut or a archeologist. The delivery os going to be a Picture of the hand written letter to give a host feeling.
This way we will be reducing social distacing, not phisically, but given confort to those who read and write the letters.
After choosing this challenge, we met through a vídeo call to understand the topic and discuss sugetions.
That day we indentify that swapping letters could be interesting. But how to do it? How will this reduce social distancing? Which tools to use?
We search NASA´s material to understand astronaut’s social distancing and how they manage that. We verify that there is not a magic formula to end social distancing impacts but we search ways to reduce the psychologist impacts.
We follow the hand written letter idea and survey how that can positively impact both people, who read and who wrote the letter. Published articles show pacients who received letters show improvement in their sleep, feed and feelings.
A letter is a way to express ourselfs, our feelings, send good world and register our emoticons.
At this point we serach alternatives to turn this idea into something real and we tought how: not top ut people in any harm, sustentable ways to do so, using the tecnology as a facilitator but without losing thw essence of letters, how could we bring partnerships ans who is going to be this partners.
Trough all the development process we kept in touch with mentors and discuss our ideas with people who are not involved the project and wrote down all feedbacks.
Ultimately we identify key points that agregate to the project and reached our final prototype.