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PAPERS: Designing Environments for Wellbeing Location: 40 George Square, LG.09 Zoom Link Accessibility: https://www.accessable.co.uk/the-university-of-edinburgh/central-area/access-guides/george-square-40-lecture-theatres Session Chair: Siyuan Huang, University of Twente | |
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Designing for generativity and wellbeing: Insights from visitors at the Hong Kong Space Museum 1: Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; 2: School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China This paper investigates how generativity, understood as showing care and contributing to the next generation's lives, shapes visitors’ engagement, experience, and psychological wellbeing in the Hong Kong Space Museum. We conducted fifteen semi-structured interviews to explore how generativity unfolds in museum interactions. Building on Fan and Luo (2022), we extend the generativity model by introducing bidirectional and recursive relationships among generativity, engagement, and experience. Our findings show that generativity can be understood as a designable, relational and temporal pathway to wellbeing. Thematic analysis further reveals that different types of installations scaffold generativity and wellbeing through distinct design features such as low initial complexity, visibility of others’ actions, shared control, and layered annotation. These features enable visitors to guide, share, and explain, contributing to others’ experiences. The findings highlight museum design as a medium for situated wellbeing. View Paper: https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.892
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