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Emotionally Durable Design - Objects, Experiences and Empathy (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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Emotionally Durable Design - Objects, Experiences and Empathy (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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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.
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