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Emotionally durable design : objects, experiences and empathy / Jonathan Chapman

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: BuchBookLanguage: English Publisher: London ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015Edition: Second editionDescription: xv, 207 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780415732161
  • 9780415732154
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9781315738802. | Erscheint auch als: Emotionally Durable Design. Online-Ausgabe 2nd ed. Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2015. Online-Ressource (224 p)DDC classification:
  • 658.5/75 23
  • 658.575
  • ARC000000
LOC classification:
  • TS170.5
  • TS170.5 .C36 2015
Summary: The progress illusion -- Consumer motivation -- Attachments with objects -- Authors of experience -- Sustaining narrative -- De-fictioning utopia -- Real world feasibility. -- "Emotionally Durable Design is a call to arms for professionals, students and academic creatives; proposing the emergence of a new genre of sustainable design that reduces consumption and waste by increasing the durability of relationships established between users and products. In this provocative text, Jonathan Chapman pioneers a radical design about-face to reduce the impact of modern consumption without compromising commercial viability or creative edge."--Jacket. -- Design -- Emotion -- Verbraucher -- Kauf -- Motivation -- Nachhaltigkeit.Summary: "Emotionally Durable Design presents counterpoints to our 'throwaway society' by developing powerful design tools, methods and frameworks that build resilience into relationships between people and things. The book takes us beyond the sustainable design field's established focus on energy and materials, to engage the underlying psychological phenomena that shape patterns of consumption and waste. In fluid and accessible writing, the author asks: why do we discard products that still work? He then moves forward to define strategies for the design of products that people want to keep for longer. Along the way we are introduced to over twenty examples of emotional durability in smart phones, shoes, chairs, clocks, teacups, toasters, boats and other material experiences. Emotionally Durable Design transcends the prevailing doom and gloom rhetoric of sustainability discourse, to pioneer a more hopeful, meaningful and resilient form of material culture. This second edition features pull-out quotes, illustrated product examples, a running glossary and comprehensive stand firsts; this book can be read cover to cover, or dipped in-and-out of. It is a daring call to arms for professional designers, educators, researchers and students from in a range of disciplines from product design to architecture; framing an alternative genre of design that reduces the consumption and waste of resources by increasing the durability of relationships between people and things"--Call number: Grundsignatur: 2015 A 6829(2)PPN: PPN: 1616113863
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Freihandbestand ausleihbar Fachbibliothek HKA wirt 5.0 Bibliothek / frei aufgestellt 2015 A 6829(2) Available 52040279090
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