Visual Arts + Tech
Stevens Institute of Technology

Serenity Center
Michael Gonzalez
Serenity Center is a card game that leads players through various exercises, designed to encourage emotional awareness and self-care. Players will be prompted by specially-designed cards to practice journaling, breathing exercises, mindfulness exercises, and other emotional support activities, prompting introspection and personal development in an entertaining, open way. Serenity Center not only leads its players to develop continuous emotional resilience, but it also offers a therapeutic outlet for people looking for support and emotional release. In addition, it promotes a stronger bond with one’s emotions and well-being by normalizing discussions of mental health, implementing these crucial practices via a fun, game-based method.


Fabrics are sewn together to represent the essence of specific memories, some as simple as roasting marshmallows during camping trips to the many hopscotches created with her grandfather to the homes she grew up in.












Certain patterns also represent members of her family, including those that are gone but never forgotten.