Wayfinding

This project addresses spatial cognitive disorders by establishing a professional healing institution that integrates cognitive rehabilitation and full-cycle emotional care in Hong Kong’s Islands District, a tranquil area away from the disorienting high-density urban core, serving groups with impaired spatial perception including Alzheimer’s patients, acquired brain injury survivors and visually impaired people. Through human-centered architectural space, multi-sensory healing environments and digital media art including interactive visuals, memory-assisted scene design and gamified AR exploration experiences, it helps users rebuild spatial cognitive ability, alleviate anxiety and sudden disorientation. Unlike traditional medical spaces that only prioritize clinical function, it embeds professional rehabilitation goals into dignified, pleasant daily scenarios, uses consistent visual cues, easy-to-identify spatial modules and tuned sensory elements to build a safe, predictable spatial cognitive map for users. Digital media art created via TouchDesigner serves as the core bridge between users and space: interactive projections respond to body movements to guide navigation, micro landmark models reconstruct familiar spatial memory, and AR games turn tedious cognitive training into fun social exploration, boosting users’ initiative to participate in rehabilitation. Ultimately, the project explores the symbiosis of technology, art and healing spaces, builds an inclusive, sustainable healing ecosystem, provides a replicable localized design paradigm for cognitive care in high-density cities, and brings more humanistic care and life dignity to vulnerable groups.