Designing for wellbeing
Designing for wellbeing
Designing for wellbeing
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Design interventions<br />
<strong>for</strong> <strong>wellbeing</strong> in<br />
neighbourhoods<br />
Sandra Viña Flores<br />
Visiting a new place or neighbourhood can awaken<br />
emotions and be a catalyst <strong>for</strong> new thoughts and<br />
actions. New experiences can emerge from previous<br />
experiences and from the in<strong>for</strong>mation and impression<br />
a neighbourhood provides. However, the surface<br />
of the place can’t tell it all. Neighbourhoods,<br />
villages and the urban landscape have hard and soft<br />
qualities that tell about the identity of the place,<br />
and where local culture develops. Hard qualities<br />
include buildings and institutions such as hospitals,<br />
museums and cultural centres, infrastructure such<br />
as roads, and natural features, landscapes and green<br />
areas. The soft qualities are about people, culture<br />
and the social domain. The process of experiencing<br />
a place occurs in a passive or proactive way, and<br />
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