Centuries of Broken Sleep

A demo for ongoing interactive project about the history of narcolepsy, seen through the lens of those who discovered it, and those who have tried to treat it, exploring the knock on effects of those attempts. A project trying to find the histories and ghosts of a chronic disorder, created by a person with narcolepsy. This demo takes you to an abstracted 19th century medical clinic in central Paris, owned and run by Dr. Jean Baptiste-Édouard Gélineau, the first person to recognise narcolepsy as ...