My sole intention in this post is to talk here about my different lines of work that range between Future Studies, Artificial Intelligence and Human Development. Besides this bed of knowledge (where ideas have sex) they generate culture artifacts that investigate the limits of drawing, sculpture and representation. I play with those resonances through my artwork and poetry.
All these interests surround a main structure of human theory to wellbeing, which also ends up connecting to what I believe to be the most important issue of the 21st century: human mental health. As a basis for this mental health is the self-regulation approach proposed by the mindfulness methodology. Mental health is not only about preventing mental conditions of suffering and low performance, but also - and more importantly - it is about promoting longer life and higher performance within this longer life.
Certainly, in addition to the endless scientific works in this direction, one of its central beacons is the evolving and always expanding Flow theory. Initially proposed and structured over 30 years by professor Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, flow has become a center point to many theorists and an organizing destiny to the myriad of interests of my personal journey. As an introduction to the topic, I recommend the text about flow by Dr. Solange Mata Machado, scientific research coordinator at Positiv - our start-up of interfaces for mental health.