About the Imagining Wellbeing Theme

This strand within the Centre for Urban Wellbeing‘s wider project focuses on how we might articulate wellbeing and its loss in terms of representation and creative potential. We aim to identify lived realities and imagined possibilities of wellbeing in the past, present and future. Our areas of interest include:

• Approaches to self- and community care, happiness, flourishing, comfort and rejuvenation.
• Immaterial, material and visual cultures that respond to wellbeing.
• Inclusivity, activism, and marginalised experiences of wellbeing.
• Precarity, mental health, support systems and vulnerable institutions of care.
• Relationships between digital and embodied contexts for wellbeing.
• Representations of industry, labour and working conditions.
• Imagined alternatives for climate, ecology, and experiences of environmental change in cities.