Positive Strategic Design: The development of a design tool that facilitates positive organizational and business development

This report is the result of a self-initiated design graduation project that regarded positive design in a strategic design context. The goal of the project was to design and develop a tool or method that integrates positive design knowledge into strategic design processes. To get to the bottom of this, desk research and user research into the...

Experience Amsterdam: A positive coexistence between the quality of life and the quality of tourism

This thesis proposes an alternative way of urban transformation in Buiksloterham, Amsterdam. The city has gotten very popular in the last decades and attracts many new residents and tourists. It has created an imbalance between the two groups and it set the city for a task. In order to deal with the crowdedness the municipality tries to spread...

The ABC of Happiness

The project focuses mostly on the social aspect, precisely on the relationship between immigrant and native Dutch children, as well as their families in order to bridge the gap between those groups.

The Productisation of BR-ND's Consulting Practice for Employee Happiness

Productisation of a consulting service aimed at bringing people happiness at work. Toolkit and platform designed to facilitate employees in developing themselves while implementing their company vision.

The Meaningfulness of Saving Money: A web enabled money saving product-service that improves people's saving experience by enhancing their motivations

There are many people who are talking about the importance of saving money and the different strategies to use it in a smart way, influencing well-being. If one browses “saving money” in Internet, the results will show tons of blogs with different rules, strategies or examples on how to do it. This project is not about that; it is about...

Servitizing Happiness: Implementing service design in an emerging social enterprise

What makes you happy? This question forms the basis of Make if Happy (MiH), a company that aims to use happiness as a medium to create social change in the world. In two years time, this simple question grew out into a foundation with a large grassroots movement. Now, the organization is ready to take the next step and wants to become more...

A Gratitude Ritual

This project started off with gathering information on gratitude: what it is, how it can be practiced and how it contributes to subjective well-being. Amongst scientific papers, two specifically interesting books can be found: Gratitude works! (Emmons, R. A., 2013) and The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want ...

Design for subjective well-being

Happiness is often considered a universal goal of people. In the relatively new field of positive psychology, many studies have been conducted to understand the concept of happiness and its broader counterpart; subjective well-being, leading to a collection of theories that explain their determinants. It has been shown that although there are...