Faculty of Arts & Science

Digital Futures

Leanna Barwick

Mr Spock's Pin

Methodologically, as a professional relationship system coach I draw from the fieldof Process Oriented psychology, which holds a focus on raising a group'sawareness of it's wholeness, exploring what change is needed on a higher level,and working with emotional data to inform this process. A concept that helps tosupport this work comes from Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek, the Vulcan IDIC, anacronym for "Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations". It is the basis of Vulcanphilosophy and celebrates the vast array of variables in the universe.This project is inspired by system awareness and IDIC; when participants aretogether in various combinations, unique sensory feedback associated with eachperson and responding to each person, occurs, resulting in different ways to"read" (experience) the room, depending on who and what is present in themoment. The overall goal of this experience is to raise system awareness forparticipants that access aesthetic and non-linear channels of perception.