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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>What is your loneliness room?</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Dear </span>colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I am undertaking a creative research project that explores how people experience loneliness, using the notion of the <b>loneliness room </b>as the central way to express it.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">For the purpose of this project the loneliness room is defined as a real or imagined space where we feel lonely or go to find loneliness</span>. We may also prefer to call this quality or state one of aloneness
where it is solitude and isolation we seek.<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i> </i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:black">Each of us will have our very own version of the loneliness room: it could be the hills we walk on, a morning swim at the beach or the local swimming pool, listening to a certain sad song in our bedroom,</span>
the morning commute,<span style="color:black"> writing in our diary, or the park we go to sit in at lunchtime.</span></i>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The project explores not just the isolation of loneliness but the social, creative and
</span>experiential<span style="color:black"> possibilities of loneliness in all walks of life: this is loneliness as a natural part of the human condition.</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I am asking those interested in taking part to respond to the idea of the loneliness room through <b>sharing their creative responses</b> and/or <b>completing a short questionnaire</b>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The creative response is meant to capture your loneliness room and can be:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Photograph(s) (with/without captions)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Short video(s)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Drawing(s) </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Painting(s)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Diary</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Social media posts </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Hand-written letter(s) (which could be posted to me)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Songs, composition, audio</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Recorded performance</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">These creative responses will then be housed in a loneliness room website, where participants can also directly post their own representations of the loneliness room. These responses can either be ‘signed’ or anonymous.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">If you are interested in taking part please:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">a) <b>Forward me your creative interpretation of the loneliness room</b> using any media you feel comfortable with. You can also supply an accessible link to this work for this purpose.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">b) <b>Complete the online questionnaire</b>, available here: <a href="https://researchsurveys.deakin.edu.au/jfe/form/SV_eet1GBIsIn3etiR" target="_blank">the loneliness room</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">A plain language statement and consent and withdrawal form can be found here and has also been attached to this email. See: <a href="https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:46ecdcca-15a2-4a35-bf86-e9d6dc9fa666">https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:46ecdcca-15a2-4a35-bf86-e9d6dc9fa666</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">To submit work, for further information or if you have any questions please contact me, Sean Redmond at: <a href="mailto:s.redmond@deakin.edu.au">s.redmond@deakin.edu.au</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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