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Facilitator’s Guide & Worksheets: Everyday Wellbeing Design Challenge
In 2015 we ran a design challenge to promote everyday wellbeing, in collaboration with Massey University.
Having recognised the value of the students gaining a creative insight into wellbeing frameworks such as 5 Ways To Wellbeing and Te Whare …
Designing for Wellbeing: Reflecting on unexpected insights
by Sam Rye, former co-lead at Lifehack
What would happen if we took 290 students from a third year design paper, and focused the brief on Everyday Wellbeing?
In 2015 I was part of the Lifehack crew which teamed …
Everyday Wellbeing Design Challenge (report)
What would happen if we took 290 students studying a third year design paper, and focused the brief on Everyday Wellbeing?
In late 2015, the Lifehack crew teamed up with Massey University’s School of Design, to do something different with …
Everyday Wellbeing Design Challenge – Fresh Minds & Approach
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 …
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 …
Everyday 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 …
Everyday 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 …
Designing 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 …
Improving Everyday Wellbeing – Week 2
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 …
Improving Everyday Wellbeing – Week 1
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 …
Everyday Wellbeing – Design Challenge Overview
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
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 …
Press Release: Lifehack & Massey University Collaborate For Everyday Wellbeing
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 …
Design for Complexity – Talking Social Innovation Practice
What is the role of Design in Social Innovation?
We’ve been asking ourselves this a lot recently, and we were delighted when we were asked to drop in to Massey University’s Design School to speak to the 4th year students …
