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Meaningful stuff : design that lasts / Jonathan Chapman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chapman, Jonathan, 1974- author.
- Series:
- Design thinking, design theory.
- Design thinking, design theory
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Product design.
- Material culture.
- Commercial products--Psychological aspects.
- Commercial products.
- Waste minimization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (235 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "In a world suffocated by people and things, this book exposes why we throwaway things that still work, and shows how we can design products, services, and experiences that last"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Series Foreword
- 1 Making and Breaking the World
- Enough Is Never Enough
- Hedonic Adaptation
- Designed to Fail
- Matter, Flowing Through
- Meaning Is Emergent
- 2 Cultures of Keeping
- From Product to Possession
- Cultural Norms in Keeping and Discarding
- Everyday Acts of Product Maintenance
- Making an Effort
- 3 Material Matters
- The Periodic Table in Your Pocket
- Minerals and Conflict
- Waste Pickers of the Global South
- The Base of the Iceberg
- The Horse, Not the Phone
- Meaningful Materials
- 4 Deeper Experiencing
- The Depths and Shallows of Product Experience
- Hadal or Epipelagic?
- Superstition and Belief
- Dark Objects
- Rich Experience
- 5 Aging Spectacularly
- Improving with Age
- Matter in Motion
- Stuff Is Spatiotemporally Diffuse
- Classics as Temporally Anchored Nodes
- Aging and the Digital
- 6 Urban Mines
- Owned but Not Used
- Mining the Anthropocene
- Used but Not Owned
- Using Together
- Making Together
- 7 Design That Lasts
- Optimal Conditions for Change
- Ecologies of Interventions
- Experience Heavy, Material Light
- Designers Who Last
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-36378-X
- 0-262-36379-8
- OCLC:
- 1256586274
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