Wellness Exercise Tool
Design innovative and hybrid solutions for Technogym that take
into consideration this new, holistic definition of
wellness. The final outcome should envision a new
service and one or more physical/digital products as enabling
touchpoints of the overall experience.
Project Leader -
Sara Ferrari
Group Project
8 weeks
Company
What is Wellness?
Wellness is generally refers to the overall state of being
in good health, both mentally and physically. It goes beyond
just the absence of illness or disease and encompasses a
holistic approach to living a healthy and fulfilling life. The
concept of wellness includes various dimensions such as
physical, mental, emotional, social, environmental, and even
spiritual well-being. It involves making proactive choices to
maintain a high quality of life in various aspects such as
exercise, nutrition, stress management, relationships, and
environmental consciousness.
Problem
The data from the Global Wellness Institute underscores
that the climate crisis has transcended being solely an
environmental issue; it has evolved into a
significant wellness crisis. The swift deterioration of our
planet's health poses challenges to maintaining our individual
well-being. The imminent demise of the soil within
60 years is not only a threat to wellness but
also endangers fundamental necessities like breathing and
accessing food.
This situation emphasizes the need to
address not only our environmental responsibilities but also our
personal health and overall quality of life. Factors such as
soil erosion, water pollution, and climate change not only
directly impact individual wellness but also hold the potential
to disrupt living conditions over the long term. Urgent actions
and sustainable solutions are imperative to mitigate these
challenges and secure a healthier future for both our planet and
ourselves.
Research
While researching the factors necessary to achieve
Wellness, we focused on activities that could
benefit both the
environment and individuals. In identifying the
most prominent and urgent issue, we found that an activity
related to soil would be more suitable. We conducted case
studies by examining existing local and small-scale initiatives
centered around both humans and soil. Our focus
was on developing a product and service that demonstrates the
mutually beneficial interaction between soil
and humans, with the aim of
global applicability.
Solution
Agroforestry is a land use management system that
integrates trees or shrubs with crops or livestock on the same
piece of land. It involves the intentional combination of
agriculture and forestry techniques to create
more sustainable and diverse land-use systems.
Agroforestry
practices aim to optimize the benefits from the biological
interactions among different components, such as trees, crops,
and animals. It offers numerous benefits, including improved
soil health, increased biodiversity, enhanced
water conservation, and
sustainable production of food.
One of the agroforest application methods is
forest farming. In this application, forests
are converted into agroforestry with the
planting processes.
After conducting research, we have decided to design
a product and system that can globally
implement agroforestry practices. We examined the fundamental
farming processes required to transform a forest into
agroforestry and aimed to combine these
processes with a nature exercise that improves both physical and
mental health.
As a wellness company, Technogym
can go beyond just providing bodybuilding-focused services to
its customers in gyms and offer them the opportunity to improve
both themselves and the environment they live in.
Design Language Analysis
Ideation
Farmwalking is a
wellness activity designed to both exercise efficiently and
facilitate farming activities. Tools used for planting can be
integrated and re-designed into trekking poles that facilitate
walking exercise.
Design
How to do farmwalking?
Onboarding & Logo
User Interface
Ecosystem Map
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