The design of everyday life
By: Elizabeth Shove ... [et al.].
Contributors: Shove, Elizabeth, 1959-
Series: Cultures of consumption series
Publisher: Berg
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9781845206826; 9781845206833
Subjects: Material culture; House furnishings industry and trade; Household supplies; Home economics; Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects; Consumers -- Psychology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-170) and index.
Table of contents: title: The design of everyday life; title: Thinking about things; title: Gaps, cracks and questions; title: The stuff of social practice; title: The structure of the book; title: Having and doing : the case of the "restless kitchen"; title: Explaining kitchen renewal; title: Modes of restlessness; title: Missing materials; title: Having and doing in balance; title: Unrealized practices; title: The dynamics of having and doing; title: Consumption and competence : DIY projects; title: Introducing DIY; title: Accounting for DIY; title: Doing DIY; title: Consuming hardware; title: Distributed competence; title: Emerging projects; title: Product, project and practice; title: Reproducing digital photography; title: Introducing photographic practice; title: Going digital; title: Doing digital photography; title: Taking digital pictures; title: Manipulating digital pictures; title: Organizing, sharing and viewing digital images; title: Innovations in photographic practice; title: The materials of material culture : plastic; title: Material narratives; title: The promise requirement cycles of material culture; title: Properties and performances; title: Material-object relations; title: The chromatic revolution; title: Design and image; title: The mass of production and consumption; title: The social life of materials; title: Theories and practices of product design; title: Positioning design; title: Product-centred design; title: User-centred design; title: Practice-oriented design; title: Redesigning design?; title: Products, processes and practices; title: Connecting conclusions; title: Implications and directions; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.