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About RE: Connect Lindong
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RE:Connect Lindong 由学生与医护人员共同发起，致力于为精神康复患者搭建通往外部世界的桥梁。项目源于我多次走访林东医院精神康复病区的经历。那是一所位于贵阳郊区的医院，环境宁静却相对封闭。许多患者虽已康复，却因家庭或社会原因，长期生活在院中，与外界的联系被切断。
在与他们的交流中，我感受到他们的孤独，也意识到“连接”的重要性。他们中不少人仍怀有梦想——渴望与家人团聚，或重新开始自己热爱的事业。于是我发起了 RE:Connect Lindong，希望让沟通重新发生，也为漫长的住院生活带来更多温度与意义。
项目包含三个部分：
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书籍捐赠与交流：建立阅读角，捐赠书籍，与患者分享故事与日常。
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“心灵树”对话机器人：设计树形聊天机器人，通过语音互动记录情绪变化，并以红、绿灯显示患者的心理状态。
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外部世界接口：让患者通过机器人了解外部新闻与文化，重新建立对世界的认知与兴趣。
RE:Connect Lindong 希望以温和而持续的方式，帮助患者重建社会链接——在对话中重新被世界看见，也重新看见世界。
RE:Connect Lindong is a program composed of students and medical staff, dedicated to rebuilding the bridge between psychiatric rehabilitation patients and the outside world. The project began after my repeated visits to Lindong Hospital, a psychiatric rehabilitation center on the outskirts of Guiyang. The hospital is quiet but relatively isolated. Many patients there have already recovered but continue to live in the hospital due to family or social circumstances, unable to communicate with the outside world.
Through my conversations with them, I felt their loneliness and realized how essential connection is. Many of them still carry dreams — to reunite with their families, to rebuild a career they love, or simply to live freely again. This inspired me to create RE:Connect Lindong, a project that brings communication and meaning back into their daily lives.
The project includes three components:
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Book Donation and Dialogue: establishing a reading corner, donating books, and sharing stories and conversations with patients.
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“Mind Tree” Conversational Robot: a tree-shaped robot that records patients’ emotions through voice interaction, using red and green lights to visualize their mood states.
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Window to the World: enabling patients to access news and cultural content through the robot, helping them rediscover curiosity and engagement with the world.
RE:Connect Lindong seeks to rebuild social connection in a gentle, human-centered way — allowing patients to be seen by the world, and to see the world once again.
Initiator
你好！我是刘昂桦，来自广州HFI。我的家在贵阳，每年都会因为父亲的工作来到贵阳林东医院。几年前的一次探访中，我看到一个穿着病号服、推着餐车的人。父亲告诉我，他们来自精神康复病区。那时我心里冒出一个简单却挥之不去的问题——为什么已经康复的病人，还留在医院？
带着这份好奇，我开始了采访与观察。后来，我不仅采访他们，也开始和他们一起生活、聊天，听他们讲述自己的故事：他们为何来到这里，又将去往何方。那些故事交织在一起，构成了一张细密的人生网。有人和我年纪相仿，却过着完全不同的生活；也有人比我年长两三倍，却仍在努力与自己的过去和解。
在过去三年里，我见证了这里从全封闭到病人有更多的活动空间、从沉默到逐渐被看见的变化。RE:Connect Lindong 便诞生于这种见证之中——希望通过设计、陪伴与沟通，让更多人看见他们，不是作为“病人”，而是作为一个个完整的人。
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Hi, I’m Ben Liu, a high school student at HFI in Guangzhou. My hometown is Guiyang, and every year I visit Lindong Hospital due to my father’s work. One day, I noticed a man in a patient’s gown pushing a food cart down the corridor. My father told me he was from the psychiatric rehabilitation ward.
That simple moment sparked a question that stayed with me: Why do recovered patients remain in the hospital?
To find the answer, I began observing and interviewing patients. Later, I started spending time with them—talking, listening, and sharing small parts of daily life. Through their stories, I learned how countless life paths had converged here: some were my age but living vastly different lives; others were decades older, still searching for reconciliation with the world.
Over the past three years, I’ve witnessed this place slowly transform—its facilities improved, its walls opened, and its people gradually seen again. From that experience grew RE: Connect Lindong — a project to help rebuild bridges between patients and the world beyond, and to remind us all to see them not only as patients, but as people with stories worth being heard.