Abstract:

This work-in-progress paper is driven by the question: how Resonant-Writing (RW) can be designed and aesthetically assessed to approach ‎alienation phenomena in social-spaces to support German and migrant women in cancer? The question is emerged in a design-project by a community of volunteer coworkers interested in supporting German and migrant women ‎in cancer. The migrant-women have been migrated to Germany due ‎to wars ‎or repressive conditions in their home-‎countries (e.g., Ukraine, Turkey or Syria).‎

The paper presents the challenging issues of RW aesthetic-assessment that face the community ‎coworkers during three practices to enable aesthetic-Illustration driven writing, namely:
a. writing practice by theatre assisted social-‎workers,
b. writing practice by art-therapy workers, and
c. writing practice by platform-development workers to serve the ‎community's online-platform. ‎

To approach the community’s challenges, the ‎paper suggests an innovative design-approach towards inquiry based ‎RW aesthetic-assessment.‎ The paper shows how the design-approach is conceptualized to enable researching how to ‎integrate the design theorist Christopher Alexander's ‎views on "inner beauty & living-structures" and the sociologist Hartmut Rosa’s theory of “resonance” to approach ‎alienation phenomena in social-spaces. The ‎alienation phenomena under study in scope of this paper are limited to alienation phenomena that face German and migrant women in cancer. The paper also shows how the suggested design-approach can enable a space for RW aesthetic-assessment in the three practices of aesthetic-Illustration driven writing. The suggested space enables also researching the community ‎self-‎assessment methods for improving the holistic-quality of their aesthetic-Illustration driven writings.‎ To put the suggested design-approach in action, design test-cases are presented as next steps of ‎this ‎work-in-‎progress ‎paper. Finally, the paper ‎‎summarizes the limits of the design-approach and our future work to improve it.

Keywords:

Aesthetic-Assessment, Resonant-Writing, Rosa’s theory of “resonance”, Women in Cancer, Alexander’s Views on Inner beauty and Living Structures.