Wellness by Design
Text by Steve Jarvis
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This issue of Signed is the second in a series of three exploring the potential for Social Design to build better communities and, by extension, better societies. The first issue concentrated on the principles, processes and strategies used by Social Design organisations to stimulate social change. In this issue we focus on the topic of designing “Wellness” in society. The opposite of crisis management, wellness is a concept that makes sense when understood as a healthy state of being, the actions necessary to maintain this condition, the preventing of destablisiing crises, and reducing their impact when they do occur. Just as the degree of an individual’s wellness can be assessed by accounting for their points of weaknesses, with societies, we can gauge a general level of social wellness by considering the circumstances of those most vulnerable within our ranks. |
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