Focusing innovation projects on promoting well-being: A toolkit
conference paper
Increasingly, private and public organizations are organizing innovation projects that aim to promote people’s wellbeing. In order to better focus such projects on this goal, we developed a (prototype) tool, based on the Capability Approach (CA). It is intended to help people in innovation projects to avoid two pitfalls: too much focus on technology (forgetting about people); and prescribing specific behaviours (limiting people’s freedom). The tool aims to help project-partners and stakeholders to express their visions, concerns, interests and goals, and to negotiate these in articulating shared goals for the project at hand, in terms of enabling people to expand relevant human capabilities.
Goal of the workshop: Participants will practically use this (prototype) tool, by applying it to one innovation project. They can learn how to (better) focus projects on promoting people’s wellbeing.
Goal of the workshop: Participants will practically use this (prototype) tool, by applying it to one innovation project. They can learn how to (better) focus projects on promoting people’s wellbeing.
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562904
Source title
International Design and Engineering for Well-being, Agency and Justice Workshop, at Delft University of Technology, 20-21 November 2014.