Dissertation Aim:
* How and when does design meet our need for emotional well being?
* An exploration of people and their dens.

Introduction
* There appear to be reasons why people need respite from parts of their life.
* People appear to want to reach an emotional state and they appear to achieve it with a personal 'den'.
* There appears to be some commonality in that desired emotional state.
* There appears to be little commonality in the spaces/ artefacts that they use as a 'den'.
* Can designers create spaces/ things that facilitate people needing this state?
* Can these outcomes be conceived as 'dens'?

Design and Emotion
* Explaining emotional wellbeing and the need for personal space from time to time. Explaining why the need for emotional wellbeing is so important to design practices.
* Do we really need a den? What happens if we don't?
* Debate/ discussions around emotion and design, highlighting the currency of this debate.
* I have read about the fact that attractive things work better, and the multiple faces of emotion and design. I am on a chapter revolved around design in practice, and the three levels of design: Visceral, Behavioral and Reflective.
*Norman writes about some interesting examples in emotional design and will be quoting from these examples.

Dens
*What is a den? People's different interpretations.
*Examples of these dens, "sense of den-ness" - the emotion/ the state.

The Diversity of Dens
* Interviews and photographs
* Similarities and/ or themes in these people's 'dens'.
* Catagorize these themes. Linked to the designing of dens?
* There appears to be little commonality in the spaces/ artefacts that people use as a 'den'.
* Clearly identify the 'common' emotion saught through 'dens'
* Link to other writing (e.g, escapism through film.)

Links from childhood to adulthood
* Interview with experts on this, e.g. Steve Rennie.
* Psychology behind why we make dens. Nature or Nurture. Need for control in ourlives.

Consumerism
* How much dens are influenced by consumerism.

Designing dens
* How can design be used to create an effect that fulfils our need for emotional comfort?
* Understanding the meaning and physicality of dens as a way of exploring whether design can contribute to wellbeing.
* Examples of places and products currently attempting to meet people's emotional wellbeing.
* There appears to be little commonality in the spaces/ artefacts that people use as a 'den'.
* 'Virtual' dens
* Can designers create spaces/ things that facilitate people needing this state? Can these outcomes be conceived as 'dens'?

Conclusion