
There are two jobs in a life.
DESIGN
/
INHABIT
Design what can be designed.
Inhabit what cannot.


About
What is Design / Inhabit?
Design / Inhabit is a writing and ideas project about how we shape the parts of life that are ours to change, and live well with the parts that aren't.
It explores work, relationships, ageing, ambition, uncertainty and the ordinary business of spending a life – through essays and conversations.
Philippa Heal is a writer and creative director with 20 years' experience across advertising and corporate life. She works across creative direction, strategy and writing, helping organisations find clearer ideas, language and direction.
Her studies span business, entrepreneurship and applied AI, alongside a longstanding interest in what makes a life work – positive psychology and human development, and, longer-standing still, Stoic, Taoist and Buddhist philosophy, which began early, including time teaching at a Buddhist monastery in Nepal.
Design / Inhabit brings those threads together around one question:
What needs to be designed – and what needs to be inhabited?







