VIDEO INSTALLATION – Exploring Justice Sensitivity through the perspective of ADHD
A multisensory video installation with animated typography, color, movement, and sound that explores the term Justice Sensitivity. Emotionally charged words such as guilt, shame, and anger appear across multiple screens in shifting rhythms and saturated colors for those diagnosed with ADHD to open for reflection and recognition.
This installation is based on the perspective of ADHD even though the term Justice Sensitivity is not exclusive to the ADHD community. Research suggests that neurodiverse individuals, including those with ADHD and autism, may react more intensely to unfair situations affecting them or others, and feel a stronger urge to restore justice than neurotypical individuals (Psychology Today, 2024). It can be unfair situations affecting them personally or witnessing unfairness towards others, feeling privileged compared to others, or directly causing someone else unfairness.
People diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder make up 2.5%-5% of the global population (CDC, 2024). ADHD is associated with differences in attention, emotional regulation, hyperactivity, time management, and sensory processing (Hjärnfonden, 2025). As someone diagnosed with ADHD, I approached this project from both a personal and a designer’s perspective.
By showcasing animated words that move fast and slow, change color and with several screens moving at once, I want the viewer to dive into the inner world of justice sensitivity. The choice of any screens showing different words at once is to invite the viewer to choose one screen that captures their attention first. It’s also something to mirror how brains with ADHD works, by moving fast and changing attention to one subject to another.
This project is based on a Research through Design (RtD) approach, where knowledge is generated through testing repetitive cycles of design and reflecting. Rather than treating design only as an outcome, the process itself becomes a method for exploring how justice sensitivity can be communicated visually and emotionally. By using bright and strong colors I want to showcase the words without the negative reminder of their meaning.
“The purpose is to create a contrast between the words meaning and the colors they’re portrayed in.”
The use of several screens displaying different words simultaneously encourages the viewer to choose where to focus their attention first. This reflects how ADHD brains may rapidly shift focus between different thoughts and stimuli. If one gets bored looking at one video, they can look at two or more at the same time.
Music was something I wanted to integrate because it gives another layer of how the viewers feel. The calmness of music, as a contrast to the fast-moving words and colors, creates a meditative feeling.
The installation invites viewers into an emotional exploration of justice sensitivity, a term that may be new to some, some can also recognize themselves in this video installation. This term is not exclusive to people with ADHD, anyone can recognize themselves in justice sensitivity.
References
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2024) ‘Prevalence of ADHD among U.S. adults’, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 73. Available at: CDC report (Accessed: 24 March 2026).
Hjärnfonden (2025) Vad är ADHD hos vuxna? Available at: Hjärnfonden article (Accessed: 24 March 2026).
Psychology Today (2024) Understanding justice sensitivity. Available at: Psychology Today article (Accessed: 6 March 2026).