ABSTRACT

Studies on design for wellbeing (DfW) from all over the globe focus on products, technology, services, built environment and sustainability. Such studies are vital to the development of the research field but are unique to any particular scientific community. In design research throughout the globe, wellbeing is explored under distinct perspectives pragmatism and phenomenology. Taken into account that pragmatism and phenomenology seem to be the most widely adopted approaches to DfW, in what follows, these approaches are discussed in more detail. Although the authors did offer a clear differentiation between health and wellbeing, the research focused on exploring ways to make the workers' tasks more comfortable, safer and easier to perform. Moving away from work focused on the effects of artefacts on wellbeing, but still dealing with the construct in a direct manner, some frameworks have been proposed for DfW.