Designing for wellbeing
Designing for wellbeing
Designing for wellbeing
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needs to get “out there” and build a personal relationship between the place,<br />
their own reality and their professional standpoint. We found it difficult<br />
to represent the final result because the creative process was an integral<br />
part of the result. We do not know how to re-contextualise the ideas to be<br />
exciting also <strong>for</strong> those who did not take part in the fieldwork. We tried<br />
traditional presentations, storytelling, video making and leaflets, but we<br />
are not happy with the agency of presentations. However brilliant the<br />
presentations are, they are only shadows of having had the experience.<br />
All we can say is that we believe the joint design ethnography of the<br />
future opens novel paths <strong>for</strong> suburban development. The students did<br />
not give answers, let alone polished design objects, but instead raised<br />
fresh and meaningful questions to be reflected upon further. Complex<br />
changes in society, which suburban development is definitely about, call<br />
<strong>for</strong> sophisticated methods. The sophistication does not need to mean<br />
going and improving drawing and model-making skills or the meticulous<br />
application of a carefully designed set of research methods. Instead, one<br />
needs to cultivate social skills to encounter and engage with people, find<br />
a location to act as a designer, and collectively re-imagine the every day.<br />
The design studio in the field is about being involved in a change.<br />
98 · Design studio in the field