There is growing recognition that methods that elicit the perspectives of vulnerable and marginalized people are essential in understanding the needs and aspirations of this group and therefore necessary when developing impactful policies, services, and environments that support them. Creative elicitation methods, which privilege participant voice, can be useful for conducting research with such populations. This chapter explores how research informed by care ethics, appreciative inquiry, and communicative methodology can support participant self-determination through the achievement of autonomy, competence, and relatedness. By advancing deliberate, iterative, and care-full research design that emphasizes belonging, dignity, and justice, cultural probes provide practical potential and ethical utility as a research method. The effectiveness of this care-full cultural probe approach is demonstrated and examined through a case study of a co-design research project concerned with designing for health and well-being at home with and for older adults.

Most older adults desire to be as independent as possible and remain living in their ancestral home as they age. Aging-in-place maximizes the independence of older adults, enhancing their wellbeing and quality of life while decreasing the financial burden of residential care costs. However, due to chronic disease, multimorbidity, and age-related changes, appropriate conditions are required to make aging-in-place possible. Remote monitoring with smart home technologies could provide the infrastructure that enables older adults to remain living independently in their own homes safely. The health-assistive smart home shows great promise, but there are challenges to integrating smart homes on a larger scale. The purpose of this discussion paper is to propose a Design Thinking (DT) process to improve the possibility of integrating a smart home for health monitoring more widely and making it more accessible to all older adults wishing to continue living independently in their ancestral homes. From a nursing perspective, we discuss the necessary stakeholder groups and describe how these stakeholders should engage to accelerate the integration of health smart homes into real-world settings.

Background Given the increasing rate of climate change and the inextricable linkage between human and environmental health, it is vital that new methods of design be explored-especially those that support symbiotic approaches to health, among all demographics. This study is exploring how to design built environments for human flourishing, using a novel concept-eudaemonic design. This concept centres on a philosophical premise (Aristotle's concept of eudaemonia) and leverages a positive psychology approach. MethodsThe research methods are virtual and designed to visualise ideal health and wellness-supporting environments. The study explores eudaemonic design, building on a methodological approach that values codesigning with older adults as an approach to designing for all. The study is being conducted with two Australian cohorts, beginning in January 2021 and scheduled to culminate by the end of 2021. Cohort 1 comprises nine older adults who are aged 65-80 years, living alone, interested in ageing in place, and familiar with technology (to accommodate market trends that relate to using technology solutions in homes-eg, smart home technology for physical and digital solutions). Cohort 2 comprises nine design practitioners (professionals with a design-related degree and 5 years' work experience) to assist with visualisation exercises for an inclusively designed future. The groups were recruited via older adult-focused social and design-focused professional organisations in Australia, respectively. The qualitative output data resulted from cultural probes sent via Australia Post to cohort 1 and from a combination of virtual interviews and co-design workshops attended by all participants. Data are being thematically analysed, coded, and reflected on by the researcher. Ethics approval was granted by the university and participants signed consent forms.Findings Data collection is now complete, and analysis, design, and validation by the researcher and participants are underway. Initial results indicate how the eudaemonic design approach enables occupants to conceptualise a home environment that enhances health, fosters a deeper connection to place, and supports their flourishing selvesprompting feelings of gratitude, motivation, and environmental stewardship-and to appreciate why having a home that does so is important.Interpretation Initial findings could promote improved built and natural environments that influence improved human health and wellbeing and might result in a symbiotic cycle of health curation. Developing a eudaemonic design approach could influence human and environmental wellbeing across user groups. This opportunity has the potential to result in flourishing lifestyles and healthier habitats for current and future generations.

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The concept of eudaemonia originates from neo-Aristotelian philosophy and is associated with human flourishing. Self-determination theory, a means to attain eudaemonia, is examined here as a foundational approach to drive Eudaemonic Design--a novel design strategy that aims to achieve holistic physical, mental, and social health, or eudaemonic well-being. This chapter advances Eudaemonic Design as an architectural and organizational approach to create healthful work environments that support employee and business flourishing. The authors argue that the importance of adopting Eudaemonic Design has grown in need and complexity as work is (re)shaped by the constraints and opportunities presented by the pandemic. By contrasting dominant pre-COVID-19 Work from Office expectations against the post-COVID-19 Work from Anywhere model, this chapter explores the application of Eudaemonic Design to deliver holistic workplace well-being, rather than single variable health and wellness alone, now and into the post-COVID-19 future of work.