RESCHEDULED! IPPA Circle: Designing for Wellbeing Science: Creating Places, Products, and Processes that Enable Flourishing (by Design)
Speaker: Jenna Mikus, PhD – Chief Executive/Environments/Eudaimonia Officer, Eudae Group & Honorary Fellow, University of Melbourne’s Centre for Wellbeing Science
Date & Times: December 09 | 12:00pm ET (9:00pm PT/5:00pm GMT)
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Access: Members Only
Event Type: virtual
What if design could move beyond aesthetics and utility—to intentionally cultivate flourishing?
This talk introduces Eudaimonic Design, a transdisciplinary approach grounded in Aristotle’s concept of eudaimonia (i.e., realizing one’s best self). By building on wellbeing science principles such as Self-Determination Theory’s autonomy, competence, and relatedness, we can shape environmental systems (i.e., places, products, and processes) that promote human thriving. Drawing from research and practice in engineering, architecture, design, and systems thinking, this session explores how places in particular—physical, digital, and organizational—can become catalysts for flourishing when intentionally designed to support curiosity, connection, and meaning. From built environments that promote choice, to digital tools that empower mastery, to organizational processes that enable belonging, Eudaimonic Design Reframes design as a catalyst to achieve flourishing (by design).
Bio: Dr Jenna Mikus is a bridging professional, balancing industry acumen with academic substance and scientific examination with artistic exploration across disciplines that support a vision of flourishing (places, products, and people) by design. As CEO of Eudae Group, Dr Mikus oversees research and advisory services for clients seeking new ways of realizing environments curated for individual, societal, and environmental health and wellbeing, particularly in the context of the built environment. Leveraging her global education across engineering (BSc in the US), architecture (MSc in the UK), and design (PhD in Australia) with her depth and breadth of work experience relating to design thinking, strategy, and change management, Dr Mikus is recognized as a healthy environments and occupant behavior expert, guiding the pragmatic creation and intrinsically motivated crafting of intelligent, sustainable, and flourishing environments for all.
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