TitleThe design of everyday life / Elizabeth Shove ... [et al.]
Imprint New York, NY : Berg, 2007
Descript-

CONTENT

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


SUBJECT

  1. Material culture
  2. House furnishings industry and trade
  3. Household supplies
  4. Home economics
  5. Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects
  6. Consumers -- Psychology

LOCATIONCALL#STATUS
Arts LibraryGN406 D457 2007 CHECK SHELVES