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The design of everyday life / Elizabeth Shove ... [and others].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cultures of consumption series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Material culture.
- House furnishings industry and trade.
- Household supplies.
- Home economics.
- Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects.
- Consumption (Economics).
- Consumers--Psychology.
- Consumers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 174 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Berg, 2007.
- Contents:
- The design of everyday life
- Thinking about things
- Gaps, cracks and questions
- The stuff of social practice
- The structure of the book
- Having and doing: the case of the "restless kitchen"
- Explaining kitchen renewal
- Modes of restlessness
- Missing materials
- Having and doing in balance
- Unrealized practices
- The dynamics of having and doing
- Consumption and competence: DIY projects
- Introducing DIY
- Accounting for DIY
- Doing DIY
- Consuming hardware
- Distributed competence
- Emerging projects
- Product, project and practice
- Reproducing digital photography
- Introducing photographic practice
- Going digital
- Doing digital photography
- Taking digital pictures
- Manipulating digital pictures
- Organizing, sharing and viewing digital images
- Innovations in photographic practice
- The materials of material culture: plastic
- Material narratives
- The promise requirement cycles of material culture
- Properties and performances
- Material-object relations
- The chromatic revolution
- Design and image
- The mass of production and consumption
- The social life of materials
- Theories and practices of product design
- Positioning design
- Product-centred design
- User-centred design
- Practice-oriented design
- Redesigning design?
- Products, processes and practices
- Connecting conclusions
- Implications and directions
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement. s2014 dcunns
- Other Format:
- Original
- ISBN:
- 9781474293679 (online)
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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