Designing Everyday Experience - Objects, Space, Habits

This book examines how design informs our daily lives and enhances the aesthetic quality of the ordinary. It shows how objects, spaces, and habits shape well-being, social relations, and environmental awareness. Bridging philosophy and design research, the volume gathers international scholars who explore the sensory, symbolic, and ethical values embedded in contemporary design practices. From the beauty of functional objects to the atmospheres of urban spaces and the formation of habits, the book reveals design as a relational practice that nurtures care, sustainability, and meaning, highlighting its role in shaping the aesthetic quality of everyday life.

List of contents

"Design Everydayness and the Illusion of Function".- Objects at Work: Uses and Roles of Artefacts and Space Design in Everyday Organizational Life. Two Case Studies.- Personal Artifiers Aestheticization of Everyday Life and Artification in Designing Personal Functional Objects.- Memories Designers: How Everyday Objects Evoke our Deceased.- Aesthetics of Care and the Meaning of Everyday Objects.- No, I Will Not Move In if the Brick of the Kitchen Wall is Exposed: How Everyday Objects Increase the Quality of Our Life by Adding Aesthetic Value to the Space They Also Create.- Tactical Urbanism and Everyday Aesthetics: Making Art Together to Improve the Quality of Living.- Designing Authentic Experiences: The Role of Atmospheres in Tourism Settings.

Product details

• Assisted by: Veres Bálint (Editor), Elisabetta Di Stefano (Editor), Lisa Giombini (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.04.2026
• EAN: 9783032174260
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3217426-0
• No. of pages: 228
• Illustrations: VIII, 228 p. 11 illus., 10 illus. in color.
• Series: UNIPA Springer Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Sozialpsychologie, Kunst, Everyday Life, Aesthetics, Philosophie Ästhetik, Environmental Psychology, Creativity and Arts Education, Artefacts, space design, Care Practices, Everyday Objects