Design for Wellbeing

8    Co-design and participatory methods for wellbeing

Emmanuel Tsekleves

Introduction

Design does not only result in form and function, it also results in feelings, affecting our state of wellbeing (Gaudion et al., 2014). The evolution of health care services could actually be described, following the same paradigm changes, from centralised and sequential models of value creation to more distributed and open paradigms, where citizens are looked at as co-creators of their own wellbeing (Freire and Sangiorgi, 2010). Especially, in the case of participatory design, participation shares an obvious similarity with the concept of wellbeing, as they are both highly contested, internally diverse umbrella terms (White & Pettit, 2007).

Wellbeing is ...