A game about communication and intimacy
Stimulating communication and intimacy between couples is central to my work. It's about the wrong image our society has created around relationships and love. Intimacy is often understood as something that has to do with sex. I would like to change this mindset. Even in this digital world we live in, we mainly communicate via our telephone, in reality we sometimes forget to communicate.
Year /
2020
My project arose from a reflection from my own experience. Through theoretical knowledge that I had gained I learned to communicate better in my relationship and what ensured intimacy and a deeper intimacy. I would like to offer this experience to other people as well.
As a result of my research, I chose to design a game in which these aspects are central. The game consists of different categories of cards with questions and assignments, as well as additional tools with interchangeable textures that focus on touch. These textures function to create a certain sensation in your partner and to communicate what you and your partner like and don't like. With my game I want to achieve that couples can establish a connection or deeper connection with each other in a playful, fun way, that they can fall back on intimacy at any time. It is a tool for establishing connection, for people to start looking at the other again, to put themselves in the position of the other, to look at each other's needs, to learn to talk to each other and to see what it is like to be vulnerable to the other.
