Aesthetic Sustainability: Product Design and Sustainable Usage

ISBN-13: 9781138369184 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 170 str.

Kristine H. Harper

Opis

Aesthetic Sustainability offers guidelines for ways to reduce, rethink and reform consumption. Its focus on aesthetics adds a new dimension to the creation, as well as the consumption, of sustainable products. The chapters offer innovative ways of working with what the author calls expressional durability in the design process.

Spis treści

Introduction: Aesthetic Sustainability  1. The Pleasure of the Familiar  2. The Pleasure of the Unfamiliar  3. The Expression of Flexible Aesthetics  4. Designing the Temporal Object 5. The Magical Thing  6. The Value of Aesthetic Sustainability  7. Aesthetic Strategy

O autorze

Kristine H. Harper is an Associate Professor in Sustainable Fashion at Copenhagen School of Design and Technology. Her research focuses on sustainable product design, philosophical aesthetics, aesthetic nourishment, the durable subject–object bond, and Designer Social Responsibility. She has written a wide range of articles on sustainable design and durable aesthetics.