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Exploring design for happiness in the home and implications for future domestic living

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posted on 2016-04-04, 12:43 authored by Emily Corrigan Doyle, Carolina Escobar-Tello, Kathy Lo
Home can influence our happiness through the activities it affords. Furthermore, previous research has indicated commonalities between happy, and sustainable societies but many of current home practices are unsustainable. This research aims to explore design for happiness as a means to future sustainable, and happier domestic lifestyles. This paper discusses the first study in which photo elicitation method was used with home-­‐owning families to locate home happiness triggers. This method elicited photography of two representative days of the participants’ home life. Participants were then questioned in follow-­‐up semi-­‐ structured interviews. From this, happiness home needs were conceptualised and connections were drawn to happy sustainable societies. This paper discusses these results and identifies that strong family bonds, facilitated by time relaxing, socialising and pursuing interests together, are core contributors to happier, and sustainable homes. The implications for design for happiness in the home are also discussed and proposed for future work.

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CORRIGAN DOYLE, E., ESCOBAR-TELLO, M.C. and LO, K.P.Y., 2016. Exploring design for happiness in the home and implications for future domestic living. Presented at the The 50th Anniversary DRS Conference 2016: future-focused thinking, Brighton, 27-30th June 2016.

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

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2016-02-17

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2016

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This is a conference paper.

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  • en

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Brighton UK

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