Editorial: Design for Subjective Wellbeing

Abstract

SIGWELL is the Design Research Society's Special Interest Group (SIG) focusing on Design for Wellbeing, Happiness and Health. The SIGWELL community has an interest in advancing knowledge, and the development and application of design research in the broadest sense to improve the personal and societal health, wellbeing and happiness of people. Our SIG is managed by an international board (including the authors here, and in addition – Marc Hassenzahl and Matthias Laschke from the University of Siegen in Germany, Leandro Tonetto from Unisinos, Brazil and and Tiiu Poldma from Montreal University in Canada.). Together we represent research in design for subjective wellbeing, experience design, positive design and participatory design across a range of domains from industrial design, engineering, psychology, interaction design and architecture. In 2017 we launched a research manifesto putting forward our vision for our SIG at the World Design Summit in Montreal (Petermans 2017).