About
My name is Lucy Irving. I am a student at the University of Brighton (City College Campus) in my final year of doing a BA (Hons) degree in Digital Media Design. To complete a module on this course we were asked to create a brief of our own for our final Exam Project.
I have been interested in and have researched many aspects of how the brain functions over the course of the year. For our Design Futures project (www.sensorysubstitution.co.uk) I looked into sensory substitution and the way in which our senses relay information to the brain and how the plasticity of the brain can allow the substitution of one sensory input for another. For the Design for Interaction project (www.interactwithme.co.uk) I investigated perception and the way we see and interpret information as well as optical illusions and how these are interpreted by the brain. Also, for the previous project, the D&AD Student Awards (www.dandad.lucyirving.com), I researched dementia and brain injuries and a condition called Agnosia, a term coined by Freud in his book Aphasia to describe recognition and perception disorders.
I wanted to continue to research into brain functions, so this time I chose to research into the way in which the brain constructs dreams, using this as a basis for my narrative exploration and construction within my final piece. I am also very interested in surrealism and interactivity as a form of control and have incorporated these ideas into the piece.
I have created this website to showcase my final project and rationale and would appreciate any feedback or comments. Thank you for visiting this website. If you have any questions about the piece, please do not hesitate to contact me. I hope you enjoy Dream Odyssey.