Design for the Ineffable: Crafting a Flourishing world with Dr Jenna Mikus

About this episode

The episode discusses how to encourage human flourishing and the role of design in promoting wellbeing with Dr Jenna Mikus.

How do we encourage human flourishing? How, in fact, do we make the thriving of all 8 billion humans and the More than Human World central to all that we are and do? It's a core tenet of this podcast, that if each of us were able to discover what's ours to do - and, more importantly, to be - and were supported in the inter-becoming that would arise from bringing the best of ourselves to the table…we'd be well on the way to the transformation we need to get us through the pinch points of the climate, cultural and technological apocalypses that are heading our way. So in today's episode, we're talking with someone who crosses many disciplines in search of eudaimonia - the concept of human flourishing, of 'finding our best self' proposed by Plato and expanded by Aristotle. Dr Jenna Mikus is an engineer and architect by training, and is now a consultant and strategic advisor who specialises in balancing architectural science with wellbeing science to promote flourishing health and wellbeing by design across a wide range of environments. As you'll hear, she did her PhD during lockdown in the ways it might be possible to help elderly people find meaning and purpose - in scientific…

People in this episode

Host: Accidental Gods

Guest: Dr Jenna Mikus

Topics covered

• human flourishing
• eudaimonia
• wellbeing
• architecture
• design
• climate change
• meaning and purpose

Keywords

• human flourishing
• eudaimonia
• wellbeing science
• architectural science
• meaning
• purpose
• design

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