Research Catalog

Title

The design of everyday life / Elizabeth Shove ... [et al.].

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2007.

Supplementary Content

• Publisher description
• Contributor biographical information

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Details

Additional Authors

Shove, Elizabeth, 1959-

Description

vi, 174 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Cultures of consumption series

Uniform Title

Cultures of consumption series.

Subjects

• House furnishings industry and trade
• Consumption (Economics) > Social aspects
• Material culture
• Consumers > Psychology
• Household supplies
• Home economics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-170) and index.

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 9781845206826 (cloth)
• 1845206827 (cloth)
• 9781845206833 (pbk.)
• 1845206835 (pbk.)

LCCN

• 2007033748
• 99937744228

OCLC

• ocn145553900
• 145553900
• SCSB-5524766

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries