Design the Long Life You Love
- Author
- Ayse Birsel
- Year
- 2022
Ayse Birsel applies design-thinking tools, including optimism, empathy and holistic thinking, to the question of how to live a long life full of love, purpose, well-being and friendship. The book draws on her year-long codesign research with older people and includes exercises and interviews organised around those four themes.
Birsel turns design-thinking tools inward, with exercises for shaping a long life around love, purpose, well-being and friendship. A gentle demonstration that the SDF's Procedures and Observations work on a life, not just a product — with the Humans component pointed at yourself.
Design the Long Life You Love helps readers design a long life full of love, purpose, well-being and friendship at any age, using the creative tools of product designer and author Ayse Birsel. The approach draws on design principles including optimism, empathy, collaboration, open-mindedness and holistic thinking, alongside the experiences of older people on what the book calls the pioneering frontiers of long life. It is organised into four themes, Love, Purpose, Well-Being and Friendship, and is interactive, offering exercises for self-exploration and interviews with entrepreneurs and thought leaders, drawn from Birsel's year-long codesign research with older people.
Where to find it
In the framework
- Procedures Component
- Observations Component
- Human Component
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