Emotionally Durable Design: Objects, Experiences and Empathy

摘要: Following the award of a scholarship (£8,250.00) from Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation, Dr Chapman undertook research, development and writing his first book. This 60,000-word monograph is call to arms for both professional academic creative; polemical work, in which emergence new provocative genres design are proposed that reduce consumption waste natural resources by increasing durability relationships established between users products. Emotionally Durable Design its genre attend 'causes' rather than 'symptoms' ecological predicament, projecting reader beyond symptom-focused approaches sustainable such as recycling, biodegradability disassembly, address deeper underlying causes problems we currently face. argues decades consumer machine has raged forth practically unchanged, leaving designers periphery, healing mere symptoms what essence fundamentally flawed system. By failing understand actual drivers underpinning human goods, resigns itself peripheral activity central pioneer positive social, economic environmental change. Since international publication June 2005, book been reprinted three times. Citations have included The House Lords, Independent, New York Times, Scientist, BBC Radio 4, Statesman leading journal, Issues, among others.