Design for Wellbeing

12  Dilemma-thinking as a means to enhance criticality in design for wellbeing

Deger Ozkaramanli

Design for wellbeing is intricately linked to handling complex societal challenges through design. Wellbeing-oriented design approaches, such as social design (Tromp, 2013), persuasive technologies (e.g., Fogg, 2003) or positive design (Desmet & Pohlmeyer, 2013), are often applied in domains such as social exclusion, obesity, mental ill-health, online privacy or the refugee crisis. However, societal challenges are unanticipatedly complex requiring interdisciplinary expertise, as well as the ability to bridge and make sense out of such interdisciplinary expertise. As a result, an increased attention to the notions of critique and criticality is needed ...