Designing for Health: Applying Healthy Human Culture

Some ideas to practise Designing for Health applying Healthy Human Culture

The practice of Designing for Health helps us identify what sources a particular action or circumstance, what perspective is informing it: moving between subjective (inner, consciousness) and objective (structural, functional, organisational) and between individual and collective.

We can map what is influencing or informing our agency, and also shift towards a balance that feels healthier.

It helps us determine if we are moving towards health or towards unhealth, and what actions are needed to keep on moving towards health. 

It further helps us identify and design helpful feedback from the system on what is healthier and what is unhealthier in the particular context we're exploring.

This practice is a design framework based on a map that tracks where we - our organisation, project, outcome, circumstance - currently are located along axes of health, and a guide to determine how we know we're not in health and what health looks like for our particular system, be it for ourselves, in our family, community, organisation, government, movement, etc. 

It is part of the wider framework of Healthy Human Culture (HHC): a set of understandings and practices developed by Sophy Banks that help create relationships, communities and societies where all beings can thrive.

Healthy Human Culture explains why we create harm even when we don’t mean to, and how we can address this with compassionate and effective action.

Designing for Health has been applied to different contexts.

You can use the below resources to become more skilled at this. Explore them at your own leisure:

• Healthy Human Culture courses
• Documents:
  • ITC library
  • HHC e-news
• Videos:
  • Designing for Health
  • Invitation
• Other HHC resources:
  • Watch
  • Practice guide: In the making
  • Background videos
  • Podcasts

We do all of the above: people can join a community of practice through a learning journey, we offer more in-depth sessions about relevant themes, refreshers, etc.

Please find more offers at our website and reach out to discover with us how we can support you or design an offer for your specific context!

Also, the Transition Movement Virtual Platform can provide opportunities to keep in touch and keep exploring this topic together.