The design of everyday life
The design of everyday life [electronic resource] /
Elizabeth Shove ... [et al.].
- New York, NY : Berg, 2007.
- 1 online resource (vi, 174 p.) : ill.
- Cultures of consumption series .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2014.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access limited by licensing agreement.
9781474293679 (online)
Material culture.
House furnishings industry and trade.
Household supplies.
Home economics.
Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects.
Consumers--Psychology.
GN406 / .D47 2007
645
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2014.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access limited by licensing agreement.
9781474293679 (online)
Material culture.
House furnishings industry and trade.
Household supplies.
Home economics.
Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects.
Consumers--Psychology.
GN406 / .D47 2007
645