Just Breathe

This collaborative project is a materials-based intervention in healthcare practice and training spaces as well as academic spaces that both participate in defining and rely upon specific ideas related to the terms 'health' and 'care'. 

In Just Breathe, we are using familiar material items such as: hooded sweatshirts, business cards, and posters to invite and explore questions of value, integrity, and belonging in professionalized care settings. 

Each hoodie is printed with words inspired by a quote that aligns with our values in care spaces. Each quote is paired with a unique fragment of co-created work. Each hoodie is paired with a business card that is printed with a fragment of creative visual work that was collaboratively created.  The cards exist as invitations for those interested by the quote on the hoodie, and can also be quietly left in places of academic learning and healthcare spaces.

For more details on Just Breathe see the project page on the Axiology Clinic website (co-led by Nathan Viktor Fawaz & Christine Ha).

This project was funded by the Killam Trusts at the University of Alberta.