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Many of us these days are getting the memo that a meaningful, fulfilled life comes only from letting go of our attachments to worldly things, but my guest today has other ideas. Ingrid Fetell Lee is a designer and writer whose spent ten years studying the relationship between design and joy. The author of Joyful, and the blog, Aesthetics of Joy, Ingrid argues that a few moments of joy can lift us and help us to be sad, well. She says: “I don’t need to be happy to feel joy…I don’t have to worry about making everything awesome in my life.”
Here, we talk about out:
- how many of us find joy in the material world
- why colour, bubbles and tree houses matter
- risk and the vulnerability in pursuing joy
- how many of the aesthetics of joy have been traditionally viewed as ‘feminine’ – which does all of us a disservice
- diversity in aesthetics
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