Designing for wellbeing
Designing for wellbeing
Designing for wellbeing
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1<br />
Observation phase – getting a first impression, building trust<br />
2<br />
Collecting insight and knowledge,<br />
understanding context and problems<br />
3<br />
Collecting ideas from inhabitants on<br />
how to improve a problematic area<br />
4<br />
Interacting with people, open exhibition and workshop<br />
5<br />
Proposition to ameliorate the existing situation, block party<br />
Figure 2. Steps <strong>for</strong> participatory process<br />
and to create initial connections with local residents. By walking around<br />
and observing the surroundings at different times of day, we got a feel <strong>for</strong><br />
the atmosphere and learned where services and other places of interest<br />
are situated. Simple questions such as “What do you think about Kannelmäki?”<br />
or “What are the pros and cons of Kannelmäki?” were asked while<br />
making our first encounters with residents.<br />
During the observation phase different resources within the area were<br />
mapped in order to know what already exists and to find channels through<br />
107 · Social <strong>wellbeing</strong> through participation in Kannelmäki suburb