Designing Health is a thesis built upon

the definition of health as a state of

complete physical, mental and social

well-being and not merely the absence of

disease or infirmity. As a result it aims to

incorporate mental and social health into

contemporary medical practice. By doing

so it purposes to change the sickness

experience. Making it different and, to a

degree healthier.



This thesis compiles both theory-based

research and practice-based research. As

health is such an intimate and subjective

subject, phenomenology was used as

a prompt. The resulting thesis includes

interviews, prototypes and experiences

all centred on finding varied health

experiences in order to find out ways in

which they can be altered.