Design + Wellbeing
RESEARCH THEME
Design + Wellbeing is one of three strategic research themes in Northumbria School of Design, which cuts across all of our core areas of design expertise.
Our research within the Design + Wellbeing theme includes work that explores the ways carefully designed artefacts, services and systems can promote wellbeing, as well as research that explores the benefits to wellbeing that comes from engaging in making, collaborative design and creative practice.
Research in this theme takes a broad view of wellbeing, from looking at the role of design in improving healthcare service delivery and intervention design, to designing new systems and technologies that enable physical health, mental health and wellbeing promotion for individuals living with specific conditions. We take a view that design has an important role to play in promoting wellbeing within communities, and in creating public spaces and forms of civic engagement that support the wellbeing of all citizens. Our research also looks at the benefits that participation in design activities and creative practice can have on the wellbeing of those involved in co-creative design work.
Please see the projects below for examples of our Design + Wellbeing research.
Changing the Stigma Narrative for HIV
ChatR
Co-design to Support People after Stroke
Cumulative Revelations of Personal Data
Curative Things
Data Science & Field Design Methods for Supporting Crisis Informatics in Conflict Zones
DemYouth
Designing Feedback Systems in Care Organisations
Designing for Family-Centred Care – From Hospital to Home
Digital Patient Information
DIGITS
Enabling Ongoingess
Enabling Self-Administered Healthcare Technology
Establishing Trust through Storytelling
Extinguish My Eyes And I See You Still
Flourish
Formulating Design Justice in Humanitarian Contexts
Front
Immersive Environments and Therapeutic Intervention Design
Improving the Oral-Health of Older People Living in Residential Care
INTUIT
Loneliness and Social Isolation in Mental Health
Loneliness in the Digital Age
Love After Death
Making Makes Me Feel Better
Material Legacies
Mediating Trust: Co-creative Making Workshop Resources
Mums Matter
Noctura 400
OpenDoTT
Paper Street View
A Design-Led Enquiry into Parametric Product Design for Dementia Care
Pears
Placing in Age
RENOMO: an alternative vision for mental health care
Service Design in Mind
The Partnership Quilt
The Speculative Gaze
The Trust Map
Understanding Fatigue In Healthcare
What Is A Wish?