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Aesthetic Sustainability : Product Design and Sustainable Usage /
"Why do we readily dispose of some things, whereas we keep and maintain others for years, despite their obvious wear and tear? Can a greater understanding of aesthetic value lead to a more strategic and sustainable approach to product design? Aesthetic Sustainability: Product Design and Sustain...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Taylor and Francis,
2017.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Routledge Studies in Sustainability
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; The concept of durability; Structure and overview; 1 The Pleasure of the Familiar; The beautiful; Adhering to universal aesthetic principles; The need for structure and balance; The pure expression; The universal effect of color; The easily decodable; Homeliness; The experience of minimal inertia; Conclusion; 2 The Pleasure of the Unfamiliar; The sublime; Order-chaos-order; Sublime terror; Positive and negative pleasure; The stages of the sublime; Breaking with universal aesthetic principles; Prolonged decoding; Conclusion.
- 3 The expression of flexible aestheticsFleeting beauty; The nature of beauty; Zeitgeist analysis; Aesthetic decay, slow aesthetics; When an object assumes its character; Wabi-sabi aesthetics; Sustainable thingness; 1. The conscientious, well-dressed consumer; 2. Heirlooms or used things; 3. Easy to repair; 4. The continual effect of surprise; 5. Flexibility and multifunctionality; 6. Accommodating changing needs; 7. The innate story of use; 4 Designing the temporal object; The time of becoming; The time of existence; The time of being; 5 The magical thing; The concept of aura.
- The re-enchantment of familiar objectsTurning things upside down; Tactile spirituality; The lover's thing; Designing magical things; 6 The value of aesthetic sustainability; Communicating sustainable aesthetic value; What is valuable?; From CSR to DSR; A specific example of DSR; Aesthetic nourishment; The difference between aesthetic sustainability and emotional durability; 7 Aesthetic strategy; Generalization and aestheticization; The durable expression; The contradistinctions of aesthetic strategy; Instant payoff versus instant presence; Instant payoff: accommodating tactile expectations.
- Instant presence: challenging sensuous assumptionsComfort booster versus breaking the comfort zone; Comfort booster: padding the recipient's comfort zone; Breaking the comfort zone: designing unpredictability; Pattern booster versus pattern breaker; Pattern booster: nursing the creature of habit; Pattern breaker: waking the creature of habit; Blending in versus standing out; Blending in: wrapping the self in comfortable camouflage; Standing out: basking in attention; Concluding the work on aesthetic strategy; Design analysis with a focus on the value of sustainable aesthetics; Bibliography.