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Wild Things - The Material Culture of Everyday Life (Paperback)
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Wild Things - The Material Culture of Everyday Life (Paperback)
Series: Radical Thinkers in Design
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What do things mean? What does the life of everyday objects reveal
about people and their material worlds? Has the quest for 'the real
thing' become so important because the high-tech world of total
virtuality threatens to engulf us? This pioneering book bridges
design theory and anthropology to offer a new and challenging way
of understanding the changing meanings of contemporary human-object
relations. The act of consumption is only the starting point of
object's "lives". Thereafter they are transformed and invested with
new meanings and associations that reflect and assert who we are.
Defining designed things as "things with attitude" differentiates
the highly visible fashionable object from ordinary aretefacts that
are too easily taken for granted. Through case studies ranging from
reproduction furniture to fashion and textiles to 'clutter', the
author traces the connection between objects and authenticity,
ephemerality and self-identity. Beyond this, she shows the
materiality of the everyday in terms of space, time and the body
and suggests a transition with the passing of time from embodiment
to disembodiment.
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