The Design of Everyday Life

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Berg Publishers, 2007 - Art - 174 pages
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.

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The Case of the Restless Kitchen
21
Modes of Restlessness
26
The Dynamics of Having and Doing
34
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About the author (2007)

Elizabeth Shove is Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University. Matthew Watson is Research Fellow in the Department of Geography at Durham University. Martin Hand is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Queen's University in Canada. Jack Ingram is Professor of Product Design at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, UCE.

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