UTOPIA (feeling)

UTOPIA (Feeling)- TRAILER

Environmental psychology has long been interested in studying how people perceive and experience their environment and surroundings. Each Human's emotional perception of their environment is contingent on not only environmental characteristics but also on the individual's cognitive functions and consciousness. According to Carl Jung's definition of psychological functions in his book "Psychological Types," cognitive functions are distinct mental processes that exist within the psyche of every individual. This concept is a key pillar of support for his theory of personality types. In his book, he described four primary psychological functions: Thinking, Feeling, Sensation, and Intuition. UTOPIA is an experimental immersive virtual reality project comprising four environments representing Carl Jung's four primary psychological functions. We used Unreal Engine, a 3D computer graphics game engine, to design UTOPIA. Every individual could enter the UTOPIA and experience the four distinct virtual reality environments via a VR headset, each representing  Carl Jung's four primary cognitive functions. Each environment is designed based on specific physical features and meaning-related dimensions that correlate them with specified psychological functions. Experience with UTOPIA can elicit specific affective reactions for scientific, therapeutic, and recreational purposes.

Feeling: Jung defined feeling as "primarily a process that takes place between the ego and a given content [...] Hence feeling is also a kind of judging, differing, however, from an intellectual judgment, in that it does not aim at establishing an intellectual connection but is solely concerned with the setting up of a subjective criterion of acceptance or rejection." The UTOPIA's feeling environment is a vast pinkish terrain with some holographic spheres, in which users are free to explore and experience.

Creators: Arefe Paydar, Ali Nakhaee, Amir Najimi  
Educator: Ali Andaji Garmaroodi, Pooria Baniadam