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Meaningful stuff : design that lasts / Jonathan Chapman.

MIT Press Direct 2021 Collection Available online

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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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