The design of everyday life /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Berg,
2007.
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| Series: | Cultures of consumption series
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Table of Contents:
- The design of everyday life
- Thinking about things
- Gaps, cracks and questions
- The stuff of social practice
- The structure of the book
- Having and doing : the case of the "restless kitchen"
- Explaining kitchen renewal
- Modes of restlessness
- Missing materials
- Having and doing in balance
- Unrealized practices
- The dynamics of having and doing
- Consumption and competence : DIY projects
- Introducing DIY
- Accounting for DIY
- Doing DIY
- Consuming hardware
- Distributed competence
- Emerging projects
- Product, project and practice
- Reproducing digital photography
- Introducing photographic practice
- Going digital
- Doing digital photography
- Taking digital pictures
- Manipulating digital pictures
- Organizing, sharing and viewing digital images
- Innovations in photographic practice
- The materials of material culture : plastic
- Material narratives
- The promise requirement cycles of material culture
- Properties and performances
- Material-object relations
- The chromatic revolution
- Design and image
- The mass of production and consumption
- The social life of materials
- Theories and practices of product design
- Positioning design
- Product-centred design
- User-centred design
- Practice-oriented design
- Redesigning design?
- Products, processes and practices
- Connecting conclusions
- Implications and directions
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
