15 An international perspective on design for wellbeing
Leandro Miletto Tonetto
Studies on design for wellbeing (DfW) from all over the globe focus on products, technology, services, built environment and sustainability. Such studies are vital to the development of the research field but are not unique to any particular scientific community.1 What seems to differentiate the scientific production within DfW from continent to continent are the underlying theoretical foundations and the social issues addressed by these studies.
The need for developing a view on wellbeing at an international level is related to three specificities and dissimilarities that characterise DfW. First, different theoretical and methodological perspectives (especially ...
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