Bump Galaxy: Virtual Care, E-health, Digital Love

A virtual world and community for mental health

This project is now archived and was part of DDW20

Bump Galaxy lobby with potion fountains

Bump Galaxy is a virtual world and community for mental healthcare prototyped on the open-world sandbox game Minecraft. It became of more importance during the pandemic in which a need for new intimacy arose on digital platforms.

Bump Galaxy is a virtual community for mental health and care in a game world prototyped on Minecraft. In it, community members can visit several different Care Commons: a forest for meditation, sand dunes for reflecting on your dreams, a netherworld for

Dream Journal Club session in Sand Dune Dreamscape

Meditation Forest

Share messages with the community post-meditation

Screenshot from a group guided meditation event

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Participants of this exhibition

Bianca Carague

Bump Galaxy: Virtual Care, E-health, Digital Love

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Bianca Carague
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About Bianca Carague

Bianca Carague is a Filipino designer-researcher whose work intersects design, healthcare and technology. Her practice focuses on understanding the social, cultural and political implications of design on both the macro-systems and human scale. By using design as a social practice, she invites people into the lived experience of her visions for the future through products, spaces, services and interfaces.