Design for Wellbeing

9    Creative methods for sustainable design for happiness and wellbeing

Emily Corrigan-Kavanagh and Carolina Escobar-Tello

Introduction

Design for happiness and wellbeing is an emerging design approach that has been gaining traction for the past decade. It shifts the view of the user from passive consumer to active participator. It aims to engage users in more sustainable behaviours and interactions within society, the home and the local community, to appeal to their intrinsic values and/or to co-create happy everyday experiences through design and emerging collaboration, rather than the stand-alone physical consumption of objects. Consequently, this approach requires novel ways of prompting and supporting suitable design thinking to trigger ...