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Emotionally Durable Design - objects, experiences and empathy
Jonathan Chapman
Earthscan
June 2005
Paperback 224 pages ISBN 9781844071814
£25.00
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Hardback 224 pages ISBN 9781844071807
£85.00
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In today's unsustainable world of goods, where products are desired, purchased, briefly
used and then promptly landfilled to make way for more, consumption and waste are rapidly spiralling
out of control with truly devastating ecological consequences. Why do we, as a consumer society, have
such short-lived and under-stimulating relationships with the objects that we invest such time, thought
and money in acquiring, but that will soon be thoughtlessly discarded?
Emotionally Durable Design is a call to arms for professionals, students and academic creatives; proposing the
emergence of a new genre of sustainable design that reduces consumption and waste by increasing the
durability of relationships established between users and products. In this provocative text, Jonathan
Chapman pioneers a radical design about-face to reduce the impact of modern consumption without
compromising commercial viability or creative edge.
The author explores the essential question, why do users discard products that still work? It transports
the reader beyond symptom-focused approaches to sustainable design such as design for recycling,
biodegradeability and disassembly, to address the actual causes that underpin the environmental crisis we face.
The result is a revealing exploration of consumer psychology and the deep motivations that fuel the human condition,
and a rich resource of creative strategies and practical tools that will enable designers from a range of disciplines to
explore new ways of thinking and of designing objects capable of supporting deeper and more meaningful
relationships with their users.
Contents
- The Progress Illusion
- Consumer Motivation
- Attachments with Objects
- Authors of Experience
- Sustaining Narrative
- De-fictioning Utopia
- Real World Feasibility
- Bibliography
- Index
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