Chapter 1Prerequisites of wellbeing

In this chapter we will consider some prerequisites of design thinking which will support the direction a project will take. We will discuss the need for beauty, the aims to achieve comfort in design, and tackle the issue of performance and productivity links to the design.

We achieve wellbeing through our experience of beauty in the physical, emotional and spiritual realms. We support wellbeing in design by ensuring we are not removing comfort, and we are aiming for beauty. Our experience will be fully enabled only if we are comfortable. We are comfortable if there is harmony between the parts that make up the physical and emotional aspects of the space and ourselves, its occupants.

Once harmony ...

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