Design for Wellbeing

Preface

I am so pleased to introduce Design for Wellbeing as part of this series of books on design for social responsibility. Wellbeing, as Rebecca Cain and Ann Petermans state in their introductory chapter, has been a term increasingly in use over the past half-century, as an overarching paradigm with which all humans should be concerned. It is not that the dimensions of wellbeing are new, just that we have coined this term and used it increasingly to describe an attribute we should aspire to. Generally, most humans wish to be healthy and flourish through their lived experience, and many also bring into the equation happiness. This book interrogates these properties of wellbeing, whilst being concerned with the role of design in delivering ...