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Wellbeing Design Challenge: Milk at the Supermarket

By Toni Reid | October 20, 2017

A wellbeing design challenge based around milk – it sounds strange, right! But this is one of our favourite sessions that we’ve run time and time again.

We’ve based the wellbeing design challenge on something everybody can understand. How might …

Picture Sort Cards - Set One

Picture Cards – Set Two

By Toni Reid | October 13, 2017

In this pack we’ve included another 30 royalty free images, ranging from mountain tops to pen & paper. We’ve used these images in check in & out circles, de-briefs and reflective sessions.

We’ve asked questions like:

“select a card which …

Photos of Massey students prototyping ideas

Everyday Wellbeing Design Challenge – Fresh Minds & Approach

By Gina Rembe | September 14, 2015

image courtesy of Mark Bradford

After a two week mid-semester break, the students from Massey’s School of Design are back to work on their Everyday Wellbeing Design Challenge!

We were asked by the Massey Tutors to come in and do …

Students sort post it notes at Week 6 of the Everyday Wellbeing Design Challenge

Everyday Wellbeing Design Challenge – Empathy

By Gina Rembe | August 30, 2015

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 …

Student Stand Up At Massey University School of Design

Everyday Wellbeing Design Challenge: All Change?

By Gina Rembe | August 24, 2015

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 …

Massey University Design School Students Working On Everyday Wellbeing

Everyday Wellbeing Design Challenge – Refining The Brief

By Gina Rembe | August 10, 2015

 

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 …

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Designing For Everyday Wellbeing – Week 3 – Storytelling & Synthesis

By Gina Rembe | August 1, 2015

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 …

Visual Responses to Everyday Wellbeing Challenge

Improving Everyday Wellbeing – Week 2

By Gina Rembe | July 27, 2015

Week 2 of the Everyday Wellbeing Design Challenge with Massey University rolled around, and it was a fascinating array of dialogue and visuals.

As Week 1 ended, the students were asked to spend their independent study hours working to make …

Everyday Wellbeing Design Challenge banner image

Improving Everyday Wellbeing – Week 1

By Gina Rembe | July 17, 2015

This week we launched the initiative we’ve been working on for several months now – a design challenge with Massey University’s School of Design, focused on Everyday Wellbeing.

The design challenge fits into one semester, and is a double paper …

Double Diamond of Everyday Wellbeing Design Challenge

Everyday Wellbeing – Design Challenge Overview

By Gina Rembe | July 17, 2015

How might we unleash Aotearoa New Zealand’s young design talent on Everyday Wellbeing?

Lifehack and Massey University are kicking off a Design Challenge together in July 2015, focused on Everyday Wellbeing.

See the original announcement here, and links to all …

Wellbeing Needs More Than Just Psychologists

By Gina Rembe | July 12, 2015

Wellbeing is not just the domain of Psychologists

This week we kick off our Design Challenge with Massey University’s College of Creative Arts. Whilst this seemed like an exciting next step for us at Lifehack, we thought it would be …

Lifehack & Massey University Collaborate for Everyday Wellbeing

Press Release: Lifehack & Massey University Collaborate For Everyday Wellbeing

By Gina Rembe | April 10, 2015

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

Lifehack and Massey University collaborate for Everyday Wellbeing

Improving everyday wellbeing for young Kiwis through social entrepreneurship will be one of the focuses of an exciting new Design Challenge project for visual communication design students attending Massey …