Ingrid Fetell Lee
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Jul
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So it's my turn, and I'm standing next to my table, everything neatly lined up, and I'm just hoping that my professors can see how much effort I've put into making my designs practical and ergonomic and sustainable.
And I'm starting to get really nervous because for a long time, no one says anything.
It's just completely silent.
And then one of the professors starts to speak, and he says, your work gives me a feeling of joy.
Joy?
I wanted to be a designer because I wanted to solve real problems.
Joy is nice, I guess, but it's kind of light, not substantial.
But I was also kind of intrigued, because joy is this intangible feeling, and how does that come from the stuff on the table next to me?
I asked the professors, how do things make us feel joy?
How do tangible things make us feel intangible joy?
They hemmed and hawed and gestured a lot with their hands.
They just do, they said.
I packed up my things for the summer, but I couldn't stop thinking about this question.
And this launched a journey, one that I didn't know at the time would take me 10 years to understand the relationship between the physical world and the mysterious, quixotic emotion we call joy.
I'm Ingrid Fattel-Lee.
I am a designer and a researcher who studies the relationship between our emotions and our surroundings.
I am the author of a book called Joyful, and I write a blog called The Aesthetics of Joy.
Well, it's funny.
So I was talking about how I am researching something new and it's very heady.
I'm very in my mind.
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