Designing for wellbeing

Cross disciplinary borders with
subjective and emotional bridges.
Trust in combining user-centred processes
with commitment and insight.
Build on collaborative open-ended processes
for out-of-the-box solutions.
Use collaborative design to
minimise social distance.
Use storytelling as a design approach
to give those in need of care a voice.
Go out into the field to work with grounded,
immersed and equal design perspectives.
Allow design and citizen activity to merge
using participatory design interventions
Figure 2: Old and new methods for designing for wellbeing
the heritage of design comes from the crafts, and we need to understand
what crafting of quality means when the design material changes from the
physical to the more conceptual. Even though this is only a partial answer
and we need to look seriously at the whole answer, the high quality of
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