Week 1- Intro, Studio

Lecture/Intro to Lifehack

We had a lecture that kind of showed us what we could do for this brief possibly and what the meaning of well being is. It was good to see examples of fourth year work that adopted well being as it aided to understand how we could transform a concept into a product. We had a speaker from life hack who spoke about how they focus on well being. It sort of changed my mind about the meaning of well being as I did see it as being well and unwell. However, well being has a deeper scope of ideas such as lifestyles, sleep, anciety etc.

We also discussed when each of us were happy and when each of us struggled or witnessed someone else struggle. I guess it did sort of get us to know each other on a slightly deeper level but it was hard to share really difficult stuff with people that you aren't really close with. The last question focused on how to resolve the issues. We found that there wasn't really a fix for our issue but there were ways to make it less stressful or difficult.

Studio Activities

There was a workshop where we went into groups and discussed similar questions to the previous lesson. Again I found it a bit difficult to share things that were really hard but I found that many people shared difficult times. 

We then each wrote down on post stick notes of perspective topics, target audiences and struggles that we could possibly focus on. These were then limited down to 10 per group and we then shared then on a whiteboard to identify the links between each group's notes. There were trends and a lot did come under specific topics and some groups had similar ideas as well. After this exercise I was thinking of maybe doing something in relation to sleep deprivation (connection with Health/Lifestyle). However, that is pretty broad at the moment and probably needs to be narrowed down as it applies to many areas of well being.