Emotionally Durable Design

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Emotionally Durable Design
Objects, Experiences and Empathy

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EMOTIONALLY DURABLE DESIGN

To my wife, Ming Ming

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Emotionally Durable Design
Objects, Experiences and Empathy

Jonathan Chapman

London • Sterling, VA

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First published by Earthscan in the UK and USA in 2005 Copyright ©Jonathan Chapman, 2005 All rights reserved ISBN: 1-84407-181-2 1-84407-180-4 paperback hardback

Design and typesetting by Safehouse Creative Printed and bound in the UK by Cromwell Press, Trowbridge Cover design by Jonathan Chapman For a full list of publications please contact: Earthscan 8–12 Camden High Street London, NW1 0JH, UK Tel: +44 (0)20 7387 8558 Fax: +44 (0)20 7387 8998 Email:earthinfo@earthscan.co.uk Web: www.earthscan.co.uk 22883 Quicksilver Drive, Sterling, VA 20166-2012, USA Earthscan is an imprint of James and James (Science Publishers) Ltd and publishes in association with the International Institute for Environment and Development A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been appliedfor Printed on elemental chlorine-free paper

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contents

List of figures List of acronyms and abbreviations Acknowledgements Chapter one: The progress illusion Ecological awakenings Pressure on resources Design for sustainability? Consumption and waste Sustainable design is symptom focused Tweaking typologies The myth of individuality Jamming creativity How toguarantee disappointment Chasing unattainable destinies Emotionally durable design Meaningful embraces with objects Waste is symptomatic of failed relationships Anthropocentrism About-face Chapter summary A toolbox of ideas Chapter two: Consumer motivation Consumption is natural The material you possess is the destiny you chase The dark side Statistics impose a paralysing vastness

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The tuberculosis analogy Conceptualizing the act When aren’t we consuming? Need Meaning Having and being Mapping need Maslow’s hierarchy of needs The crisis of individual evolution Flocking behaviour Beating down the wilderness Obsolescence The deflowering gaze of familiarity The mirror stage EgoEmpathy has a lifespan Metaphysical versus physical Chapter summary A toolbox of ideas Chapter three : Attachments with objects The dawn of material culture The cultural big bang Towards individualism and materialism Desire and disappointment The honeymoon period From honeymoon to the daily grind Growing together Love A streamlined world Designing dependency Tamagotchi Alterity CherishabilityFeed-forward and inherent feedback Fuzzy interaction

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Pace Chapter summary A toolbox of ideas Chapter four: Authors of experience User experience Naughty, naughty More is less Experience design Experience and emotion Immersive experience Chapter summaryA toolbox of ideas Chapter five: Sustaining narrative A metaphysical rendering of newness Durable narrative experience Just noticeable difference Creator and creature Leaving space for the user The teddy bear factor To cut a short story long Storytelling Domestic robotics Layers of narrative Smooth morphic shifts Growing old gracefully Ageing material surfaces Against the ‘box-fresh’ ideal Chaptersummary A toolbox of ideas Chapter six: De-fictioning utopia The problem with utopia Design is utopian Fiction The need for fiction Consumption is a process of de-fictioning

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Deflowering Sustaining fiction Consciousness...
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