Pursuing Healing and Justice through Design Practice

By Christina Chi Zhang

"HUU: Wind is how I speak to this world is an immersive landscape developed in Unreal Engine based on interviews with 22 survivors of sexual violence during the conflicts in Bosnia and the genocide in Rwanda. HUU takes its name from the sound of blowing wind, and the exclamation of relief when one lets go of the heavy burden on their shoulders.
Instead of the trauma itself, the survivors were invited to talk about natural landscapes, and through these landscapes, their long journey to healing. We translated their memories into an archipelago of floating islands, where each ecosystem embodies the memory of a survivor.
As we travel through these islands as a gust of wind, listening to the stories told by survivors, we become the wind, the witness and the messenger that connects the survivors with the world."