We've arrived to the ending of chapter five, 'Human Movement'. Like I did before in previous chapters, I'm going to analyse my blogposts and place them in the Quality of life model of Felce and Perry. The model knows 5 domains of wellbeing; social, physical, emotional, material and development + activity.


The Worlds First Holographic Protest
Last month thousands of people marched past a Spanish parliament building in Madrid to protest for a new law. It wasn't an ordinary protest: none of them were actually there! It was the worlds first holographic protest. This protest can be linked with emotional wellbeing, since the lack of emotional wellbeing (people getting mad because of the new law) is the reason they did this protest in the first place. But the action itself can be linked to development and activity, because it was an innovative action and a technological experiment. The joining of this protest is an activity and can be linked to personal development.  

The Kitchen Of The Future
The kitchen of the future is about an IKEA project called 'A Table for Living'. It's a high-tech table disguised as a normal dinner table. A camera observes what happens on the table and relevant graphics are projected on the surface. It can be linked to different domains of te Felce and Perry model. For starters it's material wellbeing since it is an object you use in your kitchen. Important is that the effect of the table on its users is more about emotional wellbeing and physical wellbeing. The table can react on the way you feel and improve your physical wellbeing. 

Charge Your Phone Using a Window
The Current Window is a modern version of stained glass. The glass contains small solar cells which can capture the energy of the sunlight during the day and collect it in a small box attached to the window. It is an example of material wellbeing, since it is about an object you can place in your house.

The Bike Of The Future
The Halfbike is a practical city bike. It's a modern version of a folding bike and you can take it easily with you in trains or busses without needing a lot of space. The Halfbike has a little resemblance of a segway, but mixed with a traditional bike. The Halfbike is definitaly an example of material wellbeing because it's about a product.

The Multifunctional Use of Place
The multifunctional use of places is hard to place in one domain, since it is about different things. I think the most important one is material wellbeing. The multifunctional use of places is about the future of our city and physical places and making the most of the places that already exist. It also can be linked to development & activity. Most of the places that are multifunctional have a connection with some kind of activity. It's about development, not so much personal but the development of our living environment. 

We've arrived to the ending of chapter four, 'food'. Like I did before in chapter two, I'm going to analyse my blogposts and place them in the Quality of life model of Felce and Perry. The model knows 5 domains of wellbeing; social, physical, emotional, material and development + activity.



According to Felce and Perry 'food' can only be placed in the material wellbeing. This chapter I discovered that this is not the case!

Made by Humans
The 'Made by Humans' campagne of fashion brand Armed Angels is an example of emotional wellbeing. In their campagne they draw attention to the invisible workers at the back of the fashion industry. By using a clever ad they confront us with the ridiculous cheap prices in the fashion industry. This has effect on the way you feel buying clothes. Knowing Armed Angels is trying to change something in the fashion industry, makes you buy your jeans with a clear conscience.

Are you sure that's food?
Articles about foods that aren't food show us the truth about the things we eat. This is something that effects our physical wellbeing. All those chemicals and artificial flavors they put in our food can't be healthy for us. If there's no one to show a good example about what (and how) we should eat, we'll never learn. Luckily there are: You wouldn't see any food blog, magazine or recipe using these kind of ingredients, ever. Yay for healthy, fresh and real food.

Trash decides what's on the menu
Pop-up restaurant Instock is a great example that can be placed under 'development + activity'. Eating at Instock is a great way to support sustainability regarding food. It is a solution for food waste and it makes you aware of the problem. It can also be placed under 'social wellbeing', since it is a restaurant where you eat together with friends or family. 

Six months without supermarkets
Supermarkets control a lot of the food we eat. Gerrit Jan Groothedde wrote a book in which he shows us alternatives for food-shopping. This is an example of material wellbeing, because it's about the quality, the reliabitily and the freshness of the food we buy. Buying local and eating fresh is becoming more and more important for our health.

Urban farming for dummies
This one is a tricky one to place in the Felce and Perry model. Or is it the opposite: really easy? Urban farming is about growing your own food, getting your hands dirty and building your own greenhouse! (development + activity/material wellbeing) But it's also about wanting to eat food without chemicals. (physical wellbeing) It brings our neighborhood together (social wellbeing) and most of all it's really fun to do. (emotional wellbeing) Is urban gardening the solution for a perfect wellbeing? According to the Felce and Perry model it is!

We've arrived to the ending of chapter three, 'appearance'. Like i did before in chapter two, I'm going to analyse my blogposts and place them in the Quality of life model of Felce and Perry. The model knows 5 domains of wellbeing; social, physical, emotional, material and development + activity.


I think emotional wellbeing will be the most important this chapter, but there might be some overlap with other domains. Let's see if we analyse them one by one!

I am what's underneath
This project is a really good example of emotional wellbeing. The goal of the project is to create a worldwide movement for self-acceptance. The need for authenticity grows and we don't want to see the perfectly photoshopped skinny girl anymore on the cover of a magazine. It's proof that the fashion industry is chancing. The project has a positive effect on the self-esteem of the participants, but creates a self-acceptance with the readers of the stories on the blog.

You are more than your uniform
This project can be placed under the sub-category 'status' - you are what you do, and in this case you are more than what you do. A good example of emotional wellbeing aswel, but it has a little overlap with the domain development + activity. The photo series shows their life next to their job, but it's no secret that the people in the pictures are proud of their job. When we look to the model we see that 'job' is a sub-category in the domain development + activity so that explains the overlap.

Hipster or Muslim?
The photoseries 'Hipster or Muslim?' is maybe the opposite of wellbeing. It can be linked to the domain social wellbeing, but it is not an example of a good wellbeing. It raises questions about how truthful our own identity is and it shows us how easy people can create an identity for you. It also shows us how easily you can manipulate your identity but just using material things.

The female body image
The people at Greatist.com made some cool illustrations to show how much the female body has changed over the years. It's hard to place this one in a domain. I think emotional wellbeing is the best fit. Although it might seem that physical wellbeing could be linked to it, it's not about our health and state of our body. The illustrations show beauty ideals over the years and that has effect on our satisfaction about our own body. 

Golden oldies
In this blogpost I talk about elderly making an appearance in advertisement for the fashion world. A few domains of the model can be linked to this. The photo series of Dean Bradshaw is a great example of physical wellbeing. Not only young pretty girls can be used for sport campagnes, but elderly are still fit and tough enough to do it aswel. But the campagne by Dolce & Gabbana on the other hand, shows a lot more emotional wellbeing. It's all about authenticity and real women. Perfection is boring an not so much inspiring. We want to see real people and more diversity. Magazines already payed attention to different size girls and now they are adding different ages. 

Like I predicted, emotional wellbeing is the most important one in this chapter. An explanation can be that appearance is so much about your physical appearance, but also about your inner self. Everything reflects on identity and our satisfaction, self-esteem, status, contentment and trust: all connected to our feelings. 

Today I'm going to analyse my previous blogpost and place them in the Quality of life model of Felce and Perry. Felce and Perry knows 5 domains of wellbeing; social, physical, emotional, material and development + activity. Not the kind of article you would expect as a blogpost, but this is my school-blog after all, so once in a while these kind of blogpost will appear.






Cacao
Cacao is a store where you can buy homemade chocolate. Buying chocolate can be defined as a material good and can be placed under meals/food. Cacao also has a possibility to make your own chocolates during a workshop. This is an activity involving education and can be placed under development and activity.

Sprs.me
Sprs.me is a travel agency that books you a surprise holiday. Since the agency focusses on traveling with friends it can be seen as a social activity. It's not only a social activity, because there is still the option go all by yourself. If you look at it from that perspective it can also be placed under development and activity since it involves a leisure activity.

Q&A a dayThe concept of Q&A a day is to answer one question a day, for 5 years in a row. It's a good example of emotional wellbeing. The book makes you reflect on your life by asking you one question a day. It makes you self-conscious and can give you satisfactional feelings by re-reading the answers and seeing your personal development.

Alchemie
Alchemie is a place where everything is possible. It's a place for your cup of coffee after a hard days work, but it's also a place to shop for art, buy vintage furniture and clothing, have a healthy lunch or take yoga lessons. It can be placed under development and activity since it involves a lot of leisure activities. If you look deeper into it, all the separate activities can be places under different branches. The yoga lessons for example would fit into physical wellbeing and the shopping part can be placed under material wellbeing. 

Puha shopping guidePUHA is a tiny little shopping guide that shows a whole other side of Utrecht, filled with art, design, music, vintage, food and drinks. It focuses on authenticity, home made products, unique designs and everything that has that 'special something'. It's a little bit hard to categorize this one, but I think it fits best in the material wellbeing category. Not the booklet itself though, but the places it brings you to: they all have something to do with shopping or eating.