Read more
"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 materialexperiences. 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, illustratedproduct 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 disciplinesfrom 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"--
List of contents
List of Figures. Acknowledgements. Preface. 1. The Progress Illusion 2. Consumer Motivation 3. Attachments with Objects 4. Authors of Experience 5. Sustaining Narrative 6. De-fictioning Utopia 7. Real World Feasibility References. Index
About the author
Jonathan Chapman is Professor of Sustainable Design at the University of Brighton, UK. His research into product life extension has advanced design and business thinking in a range of settings, from Sony, Puma and Philips to the House of Lords and the UN.
Summary
Emotionally Durable Design asks ‘Why do we discard products that still work?’ In this second edition, featuring illustrated product examples, a running glossary and pull-out quotes, Chapman frames an alternative genre of design that increases the durability of relationships between people and things.
