A practice-based masterclass series to prioritise design decisions for health and thriving in your unique project
Scientific evidence on the relationship between space, health, behaviour, nervous system regulation, and human thriving is growing rapidly. But in real projects, the challenge is not accessing knowledge. The challenge is knowing what to prioritise.
Which scientific approaches are relevant for this specific project? Which wellbeing needs matter most for your target group? Which design decisions can create the highest impact within real constraints, budgets, and timelines?
This two-part masterclass series introduces a practical method to bridge science and design practice, helping you begin to understand how to prioritise decisions that are not only inspiring, but relevant, strategic, and applicable to your own project.
Each session builds on the previous. You arrive with your own project context. The masterclasses provide the structure, the scientific framework, and the method.
By the end, you will have taken the first real step from broad wellbeing intentions toward structured, project-specific design priorities.
Move from broad wellbeing principles toward project-specific priorities, within your actual context, constraints, and goals.
Begin building a framework of 20 health and wellbeing indicators, scored and mapped to reveal where design can have the highest impact.
Identify which scientific approaches are most relevant for your project: biophilic, salutogenic, trauma-informed, sensory design, and more.
Walk away with a Project Thriving Profile and priority areas — a first usable map of where design decisions can matter most in your project.
At the heart of the masterclass series is the Wendy Model — Design for Blooming's proprietary framework for reading a spatial project through a human-thriving lens.
It maps the human experience from basic physiological needs to deeper psychological connection, helping participants understand what matters most for their specific project, users, and goals.
In Masterclass 2, you begin applying the 20 indicators to your own project, using your Project Thriving Profile to identify the areas where design decisions can have the greatest impact.
Before the first masterclass, participants complete a short Project Thriving Map to help you arrive ready to work.
A short guided reflection tool. Frame your project through 8 entry points: goals, users, context, needs, constraints, and priorities.
An introduction to evidence-informed design and the 8 entry points. Explore which scientific approaches are most relevant for your project.
Apply the 20 Wendy Model indicators to your project. Build design questions, identify priority areas, and define your first science-based design directions.
Each masterclass is two hours online and combines theoretical input, guided reflection, applied exercises, and group discussion.
An introduction to why evidence-informed design is becoming essential and why the growing body of evidence also creates complexity for designers. We explore the 8 entry points of the Project Thriving Map and introduce the scientific approaches, clarifying what each can help you understand and when it may be useful for your project.
Monday, 5 October 2026 · 18:00–20:00 CET
In the first hour, we introduce the 20 health and wellbeing indicators based on the Wendy Model. In the second hour, participants use these indicators alongside their own Project Thriving Profile to identify relevant scientific approaches, build sharper design questions, and define priority areas for their project.
Wednesday, 7 October 2026 · 18:00–20:00 CET
Every experience in a space is processed by the body and brain. Emotions influence our actions. Actions shape performance and results.
The question is not only what we are building, but what experience we are creating. This masterclass series gives you the tools to begin answering that question with clarity and evidence.
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Daiana Zamler is an architect, PhD, and founder of Design for Blooming. Her work bridges architecture, neuroscience, environmental psychology, and strategic design to help organisations make clearer, evidence-informed spatial decisions that support health, wellbeing, and long-term human flourishing.
Through Design for Blooming, she supports architects, consultancies, developers, and organisations in translating complex scientific insight into practical design priorities, helping create spaces where people can regulate, connect, focus, recover, belong, and thrive.
This masterclass series is a first step. A deeper full course is in development for those who want to continue into the complete method, from project framing and assessment to scoring, mapping, priority areas, and final design decisions.
Have a question before enrolling? Daiana is happy to hear from you directly.
✉ daiana@designforblooming.comA guided pre-masterclass reflection tool to frame your project across 8 entry points before Masterclass 1.
Interactive sessions combining theoretical input, guided exercises, group discussion, and peer learning. Recordings included.
An introduction to the Wendy Model's 20 health and wellbeing indicators, with a first application to your own project.
A structured project framing document capturing your goals, users, context, constraints, and initial wellbeing priorities.
A set of sharpened design questions and priority areas, ready to guide the next steps in your project process.
Maximum 10 participants. The diversity of projects enriches the learning: all participants apply a shared method to their own unique context.
Especially relevant for people who already sense that health and wellbeing matter in design, but need a clearer way to decide what to prioritise, how to apply scientific knowledge, and how to communicate the value of those decisions.
This is a small-group masterclass series, capped at 10 participants. Early commitment ensures your place.