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Art therapy techniques as a novel creative method for exploring design for home happiness

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posted on 2019-05-16, 09:11 authored by Emily Corrigan-Kavanagh, Carolina Escobar-Tello
Home can play a central role in influencing societal practices, being, among other conceptualisations, a social system supportive of basic and psychological needs. Art therapy techniques can be used for exploring home happiness from this perspective. They appear to enable the identification of systemic facilitators of happy home moments, informing design opportunities. This paper discusses art therapy techniques as a new tailored creative method for exploring this within design research. It begins by describing relevant home and happiness concepts, art therapy techniques and similar creative methods. This is followed by an explanation of how art therapy approaches were used to examine practices for home happiness. Subsequently, research results are highlighted, such as how 'design for home happiness' can create applicable design products and services. Finally, implications of employing art therapy techniques in 'designing for home happiness' are suggested.

History

School

  • Design and Creative Arts

Department

  • Design

Published in

Journal of Design Research

Volume

16

Issue

3/4

Pages

175 - 195

Citation

CORRIGAN-KAVANAGH, E. and ESCOBAR-TELLO, M.C., 2019. Art therapy techniques as a novel creative method for exploring design for home happiness. Journal of Design Research, 16 (3/4), pp.175-195.

Publisher

© Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Journal of Design Research and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1504/JDR.2018.099533.

Acceptance date

2018-08-01

Publication date

2019-04-24

ISSN

1748-3050

eISSN

1569-1551

Language

  • en