Archive for August 2015
Everyday Wellbeing Design Challenge – Empathy
Last week we wrote about the exciting turbulence that was created at the turning point in the design challenge, where students were able to continue with the design brief they’d been shaping up for five weeks, or change and seek …
Read MoreEveryday Wellbeing Design Challenge: All Change?
Week 5 was secretly the point I was most excited about at the Everyday Wellbeing Design Challenge with Massey University. It was the time where the tutors were testing a hypothesis – ‘can we enhance our students’ collaborative practice by …
Read MoreLower Hutt: A Review
Last weekend, the Lifehack community put on an event in Lower Hutt to support three wonderful local wellbeing projects. Over 50 people together across all ages came to volunteer their skills in communications, web development, graphic design, strategic thinking, …
Read MoreEveryday Wellbeing Design Challenge – Refining The Brief
The pace is ramping up over at the Everyday Wellbeing paper we’re working on with Massey University’s School of Design!
We’re almost at the stage where the students’ research is being refined down in groups into a brief which …
Read MoreTop 10 Design Research Resources
Increasingly Lifehack is supporting and empowering people around New Zealand to start well and build their capacity when it comes to designing, developing and improving youth wellbeing projects.
Often we get asked for resources, best practice guides and tools …
Read MoreCrowdsourcing A Youth Wellbeing Map For Aotearoa
The Problem:
We’re often asked what kinds of projects are happening in the youth wellbeing space in Aotearoa New Zealand. Often we reel off a number of the projects we’ve worked with, ones we know about through our networks, and …
Read MoreUpdates to the Lifehack privacy policy
Lifehack takes privacy very seriously and will not disclose any your information unless otherwise stated. If you’d like to know more about our privacy policy and our open-source ethos, please see this document.…
Read MoreHow We Use Experiments To Drive Insight
We get a lot of questions about how we do what we do.
Moving at pace but keeping Lifehack focused on learning is a skill we’ve been honing for over 2 years, and the practice of running Experiments is at …
Read MoreAnnouncing The Lower Hutt Weekend Projects
We’re excited to announce that we’ll be working with three awesome local community initiatives at the upcoming Lower Hutt weekend. Whether you’re into cycling, local food production, reciprocity systems, or whānau activities, there’s something for everyone. These brave individuals and …
Read MoreWellbeing in Aotearoa : Te Whare Tapa Whā
Increasingly there is a recognition around the world that Wellbeing is a holistic concept.
Whilst there’s some excellent resources such as 5 Ways To Wellbeing and PERMA, here at Lifehack we feel like we need to acknowledge what Wellbeing means …
Read MoreDesigning For Everyday Wellbeing – Week 3 – Storytelling & Synthesis
Week 3 took flight with the themes “Inspirational Designing”, “Brainstorming & Storytelling” & “Concept Synthesis”.
The students got the opportunity to hear about photography in design, before returning to the development of their 8 page visual research package. Tutors helped …
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