— 734 743 Celebration & Contemplation, 10th International Conference on Design & Emotion 27 — 30 September 2016, Amsterdam Introduction Synopsis BY a simple process of designing a notional T-shirt every day for a 28-day period, individuals and groups develop a mindfulness mindset regarding their emotion state of being, and the ability to deliberately engage in an emotion that is experience-enhancing and of positive affect. For the record THE Emo-TTM Global Wall is an education and practice in cognitive appraisal1 and positive emotion leading to overall positive affect. THE term positive affect refers to the longer-term experience of an internal feeling-state of joy, interest, wellbeing, confidence, high self-esteem, and other similar mood states. WHILST the psychology and neuroscience research communities work through the nitty-gritty of experiment design, participant variables, reliability, and all the other demands of disciplined lab work, the emerging research findings are consistent: Frequent positive affect – i.e. being happy – engenders success across multiple life domains, including marriage, friendship, income, work performance, and health. (Lyubormirsky, King and Diener, 2005) Birth of the Emo-TTM Global Wall DOESN’T it stand to reason then, that developing the ability to feel positive is a life-enhancing experience? And, if we value the emerging findings regarding the positive affect - life success correlation, shouldn’t we be directing our focus toward the development of positive emotion in our being and responses? Abstract Human beings are emotional creatures. It’s logical therefore that a major aspect of design thinking, planning and development is geared toward provoking emotion, speculation, reflection, and influencing choices and actions. Rooted in the neuroscience of emotion, the Emo-TTM Global Wall is a project that flips the design-to-provoke-emotion concept, to emotion- inspired design. The aim is to stimulate, engage and activate the creative instinct whilst deliberately engaging with specific positive emotions. Simple but effective in design and instruction, children and adults engage with emotions they would like to experience, understand, or cultivate and develop. Having conjured a positive emotion with deliberate intent, they design a T-shirt that becomes a practice in mindfulness-related emotion processing. A 28-day participation period is recommended. It is our intention to build a global wall of a million Emo-Ts which will become a design portfolio that demonstrates the emotion- design loop and an artistic global platform for education and training of the future relating to development of personal emotion- architecture. Keywords Affective neuroscience, Connectomics, Mindfulness, Design provocation, Psychological capital The Emo-TTM Global Wall: Design and emotion or emotion-led design? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Melanie Flory1 melanie@mindrheo.com Ninela Ivanova1,2 ninela@mindrheo.com 2MindRheo, United Kingdom 1Kingston University London, United Kingdom - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 Appraisal theory posits that emotional responses to a situation are tied directly to interpretation of the situation as it unfolds. Cognitive appraisal refers to individual interpretation involving direct, immediate and intuitive evaluative frameworks to make sense of the external environment in relation to personal well-being. Personal appraisals reveal how people subjectively experience their environments and have strong correlates with specific emotions. (Yap and Tong, 2009).