Plan(e)t Medicine
An interactive, therapeutic vending machine.
Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy is proving incredibly effective in the treatment of debilitating mental health disorders; and beyond that, 100% of participants in clinical trials report enhanced biophilia and eco-consciousness. Can we position psychedelics as methodology in the approach to creative problem-solving issues around the ecological crisis?
The project considers how, by restoring the relationship we have with psychedelic medicines and with the land in which they grow, we can assist in the decolonisation of trauma work to illustrate how ecology, environment and the lived experience of the body, mind and spirit are inseparable. By understanding collective trauma, collective healing can provide answers on how to move forward in synchroneity with and for nature in biocentric equality.
Working in an act of detournement, a vending machine has been hijacked with a GPT3 AI language model ‘Augmented Healing’ learnt from a dataset of medical research papers to harness emergent technologies to prescribe psychedelic medicine. It offers solutions of psychedelic healing including a Bacterial Cellulose Psilocybin Micro Patch with accompanying binaural soundtrack, visuals and prescriptions for nature.
Plan(e)t Medicine invites the user to reclaim sensitivity and hopes to assist in renewing a more caring and respectful relationship with ourselves, others, and the world with a transcendent, synergetic understanding that we ourselves are nature.
Lynsey Gibson
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