Stuyvesant Residence Hall, 3rd floor hallway
Taking inspiration from CJ Hendry’s recent exhibit: Monochrome, in which she built seven rooms of a house and dedicated each to one specific color, I want to design a color-based intervention in my dorm hallway. My zine’s topic is “Color Psychology” and keeping that in mind, I thought of doing this intervention. I chose my hallway as the location because of the blank space available and the fact that it is frequented by the people who live on this floor throughout the day. I will be covering the two extended walls on either side, with colored paper. The colors I have chosen are the three primary colors: yellow, blue and red. This intervention will be held over the course of three days, with one day for each color. With the hallway completely decorated in one particular color, it is bound to have psychological effects on the people passing through it. Along with covering the walls, I will also be using streamers of the same color to beautify the doors and covering the lights with yellow translucent paper. This way, the hallway will be bathed in the color. After the intervention has taken place, I will be going to each dorm room and asking its residents the following questions:
- Did the colors have any effect(s) on you?
- Which color made you feel most energetic?
- Which color ruined your mood?
- Which color did you feel most connected to?
- Would you like the concept of colored walls in our hallways/classrooms over plain white walls?
- What do you usually associate the three colors with?
- Yellow –
- Blue –
- Red –
- Describe how you felt in the colored hallways in one word for each –
- Yellow –
- Blue –
- Red –
My intention is to understand what people feel towards colors and how they react because of them. I want my list of questions to seem less like a questionnaire and more like an engaging conversation between me and each dorm member. I will be recording videos of these conversations for documenting purposes.
