Doyle, Emily Corrigan Escobar-Tello, Carolina Lo, Kathy Pui Ying Alternative pathways to understanding and designing for happiness in the home This article considers the value of making long-term happiness a key priority in designing for the home and how creative methods, art therapy techniques in particular, can be fundamental in this process. It presents different approaches for investigating home happiness by offering an overview of happiness, design and home literature informing the research process, and techniques employed so far. Accordingly, photo elicitation and art therapy techniques are used at different stages of the research to investigate home happiness and locate design directions. This article therefore discusses how these approaches could assist designers in the creation of happy home design interventions, including commercial products, product-service-systems and/or public/community services, and, through this, potentially lead to happier future homes and more sustainable lifestyles. Designing for happiness;Home;Creative methods;Art therapy techniques;Service design tools;Complex system;Long -term happiness;Photo elicitation;Design Practice and Management not elsewhere classified 2017-01-06
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