ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates the potential value of an integral perspective for attempts to ground wellbeing in place. It examines an integral embrace that can address wellbeing more directly, albeit in a preliminary and speculative manner. This paves the way for a specific consideration of place-making and wellbeing in combination. The chapter closes with a consideration of how these two concepts might be better meshed' in practice, through an emerging social technology, meshworking, which has seeming application not only for planning, but also for the realms of policy and design. Informed by an integral approach, wellbeing may be conceptualized as a product of place-making, engaging body, mind and spirit the hand, head and heart of some formulations. The underlying planning, policy and design challenge may be expressed in terms of meshing place-making and wellbeing, as whole-making. An integral engagement of wellbeing and place-making entails engaging the ineffable, within the realms of consciousness, as much as it entails engaging exterior concrete form.
