Meaningful Stuff : Design That Lasts.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (235 pages)
- Design Thinking, Design Theory Ser. .
- Design Thinking, Design Theory Ser. .
Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- 1 Making and Breaking the World -- Enough Is Never Enough -- Hedonic Adaptation -- Designed to Fail -- Matter, Flowing Through -- Meaning Is Emergent -- 2 Cultures of Keeping -- From Product to Possession -- Cultural Norms in Keeping and Discarding -- Everyday Acts of Product Maintenance -- Making an Effort -- 3 Material Matters -- The Periodic Table in Your Pocket -- Minerals and Conflict -- Waste Pickers of the Global South -- The Base of the Iceberg -- The Horse, Not the Phone -- Meaningful Materials -- 4 Deeper Experiencing -- The Depths and Shallows of Product Experience -- Hadal or Epipelagic? -- Superstition and Belief -- Dark Objects -- Rich Experience -- 5 Aging Spectacularly -- Improving with Age -- Matter in Motion -- Stuff Is Spatiotemporally Diffuse -- Classics as Temporally Anchored Nodes -- Aging and the Digital -- 6 Urban Mines -- Owned but Not Used -- Mining the Anthropocene -- Used but Not Owned -- Using Together -- Making Together -- 7 Design That Lasts -- Optimal Conditions for Change -- Ecologies of Interventions -- Experience Heavy, Material Light -- Designers Who Last -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Bibliography -- Index.