Description: In this groundbreaking book, designer Ingrid Fetell Lee explores how making small changes to your surroundings can create extraordinary happiness in your life. Drawing on insights from neuroscience and psychology, she reveals how the seemingly mundane spaces and objects we interact with every day have surprising effects on our mood and how we can harness the power of our environment to live fuller, healthier and more joyful lives.
https://www.waterstones.com/book/joyful/ingrid-fetell-lee/9781846045400
Why we Liked it
Joyful is an absolutely fascinating book. It is packed with so much information but is also written in a very accessible style. In Ingrid’s research, she examined how mundane spaces and objects we interact with every day can have surprising and powerful effects on our mood. She asks why do Cherry blossoms and balloons, rainbows and sweeping natural landscapes and some colours, shapes, textures, patterns, seem to create universal joy?
The content centres around ten key qualities of joyful experiences and environments: energy, abundance, freedom, harmony, play, surprise, transcendence, magic, celebration and renewal.
We particularly liked her Joyful Toolkit with lots of practical examples showing how we can all learn to find joy and put it into practice in our public spaces and in our own homes.
After the last eighteen months, this book is a wonderful invitation to bring joy back into our lives.
Highly Recommended!