365 Wellbeing

We want to build better wellbeing services and better health care for the city.

365 Wellbeing addresses different dimensions of wellbeing, focusing in particular on municipal wellbeing services and patient-centred health care solutions. It is looking for ways to adopt healthier lifestyles and plans functional, pleasant and healthy environments.

The 12 projects of 365 Wellbeing are actual services or processes in the cities involved, and they include planning the Villa Breda service home for the elderly in Kauniainen to include cultural services, development of the treatment environments and practices in psychiatric care units located in Helsinki, a project to promote electronic transactions in health care, and a project aimed at creating smoke-free public environments.

Each project has a team of approximately 15 students and a dynamic duo of design, in other words, 2 postgraduate doctoral students.  Blogs provide a way for people to keep up with and comment on the projects. 

365 Wellbeing is doing its part to renew design practices in the Design Capital. Among other things, the project will focus on applying aspects of service design and critical design. The project aims at presenting design as a socially proactive and responsible activity.

The project teams will work in a cross-disciplinary manner and approach problems from many different design angles. 365 Wellbeing will challenge international design teams and serve as a platform for utilising various design concepts.

The project work and results will be presented to the public in open workshops, while dialogue between wellbeing and design will be carried out in online forums, in the public eye and in academic journals.

More information:

Turkka Keinonen
Professor
Aalto University
Turkka.keinonen@aalto.fi