Emmi Salonen

Emmi Salonen is a designer and educator who founded London-based Studio Emmi in 2005. Her work centres on Positive Creativity—the idea that design can connect people, foster wellbeing, and support sustainable choices. She is the author and designer of The Creative Wellbeing Handbook (BIS Publishers), and the creator of the Creative Ecosystem model to help reduce stress and burnout.
Emmi's insights are grounded in both experience and training, including Yale’s The Science of Well-Being course. She is a Happiness Facilitator and RSA Fellow and has contributed to the AI for Human Flourishing think tank at the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science.