Imagining Wellbeing

Approaching research in collaborative and interdisciplinary ways, we will ask questions such as: how do we envision the experience of wellbeing and the systemic factors that either inhibit or facilitate it? How has wellbeing been conceptualized over time? And what can historical, political, and creative narratives about human flourishing, attachment, welfare, or comfort tell us about the private and communal sustainability of wellbeing?

We also ask whether those disciplines traditionally disposed to interrogate notions of self-care, amelioration, happiness, or therapeutic rejuvenation can now reimagine their own engagement with the paradigms and lived realities of wellbeing - especially in an age characterised by personal precarity, unequal support systems, vulnerable institutions of care, economic anxiety, environmental degradation, and geopolitical division.