Health spaces-multisensorial experimental filmmaking

Pregnancy was for me a period of leaving my comfort zone, but also crossing sensual boundaries. Change of taste, all-day craving for oranges, intensification of the smell. For example, I recognized the onset of labour by the smell of the ocean I was producing. And that's what the baby smelled like. Of course, in retrospect, it's easier to talk and write about these pleasant sensual triggers. However, we must not forget about pain, nausea, and smelly disgusting things (and during pregnancy, these were stimulants for me, but also perfumes - interestingly, my blind friend rejects these smells in a similar way). All this research aroused my research appetite related to the role of smells in our experience of a place, but one more topic was like a stick in an anthill. In Poland, a lot of women go to the pregnancy pathology ward in the event of a delay in delivery (which is natural and very common). My conversations with friends, other women, and then gynecologists led to the reflection that this time in the hospital, waiting for childbirth, without risk and other health problems, is a difficult time, full of boredom, lack of exercise, and apathy. Therefore, as part of my doctoral studies at the Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, I started a study on the potential of using hospital green spaces in the prevention of the health of gynecological patients. And since I am a master of media art, it was obvious to use film. This is how the 1st episode of the media-art-based research series Health/Spaces was created: https://youtu.be/zH_yXbfkKzY

Here are some additional resources I would like to share:

1) Project on embodied experience, e.g. industrial spaces in New York:

https://wennergren.org/article/interview-dr-andrew-irving-new-york-stories/

2) UCL Filmmaking Course (online): https://opencitylondon.com/courses/multisensory-

experimental-filmmaking/.