Vision

© Vimukthi Gunatilleke

In the future people enjoy being active, although everyone will enjoy it in their own way. Keeping up with an active lifestyle can only be done, when enjoying what you do. The role of designers is to lower the threshold for people to change their behavior.

Everyone has barriers, for some people its laziness, for different people it might be fear to hurt themselves and for others there might be different reasons. Instead of calling people who do not work out lazy people, we should find the reason why they aren’t sporting and find a way to help them to get the motivation for it. Furthermore, it is the challenge to motivate and rehabilitate patients to an active lifestyle to prevent further health damage. Nevertheless, we should also focus on mental health as it influences physical health and vice versa. My vision to improve overall health is in line with the 3rd Global Goal for Sustainable Development, Good Health & Well-Being.

Technology can play a big role in this. Nowadays, a lot of information comes from what we see on different kinds of technology. For example, fast food chains advertisement on television, what if we change the way these ads are presented? What if we present the audience with healthier advertisements where we do not mainly focus on the economic advantages, but what is best for the individual.

In the future we succeed in motivating people to change into a more vital lifestyle and keep up with it, because it is something they enjoy. We use the existing technology that made us lazy in a different way, so it becomes motivating to be more active. We use them to show people that small changes in your lifestyle make a big difference in your vitality, mental and overall health.