Hvorfor skiller man sig uden videre af med nogle ting, selv om de ikke er slidte og sagtens kunne anvendes mange år endnu, mens man beholder andre i årevis, på trods af at de slides og ældes? Hvordan er den konkrete, tingslige tidløshed mulig?
Svarene finder du i Æstetisk bæredygtighed, der beskæftiger sig med designstrategi og designanalyse samt bæredygtigt design og æstetisk værdi. Bogen giver samtidig indblik i filosofisk æstetik og sammenkoblingen mellem den filosofiske tilgang til den æstetiske oplevelse, design og bæredygtighed.
Æstetisk bæredygtighed søger retningslinjer for at reducere, gentænke og reformere forbrug. Den tilføjer med sit æstetiske fokus en ny dimension til såvel skabelsen som forbruget af bæredygtige produkter samt til forståelsen og analysen heraf.
Bogen henvender sig til design-, kultur- og æstetikuddannelserne. Herudover vil den være interessant for alle med interesse for bæredygtighed, æstetik og design af produkter.
Kristine H. Harper is the author of Aesthetic Sustainability and Anti-trend (published January 2022) and writer of the blog The Immaterialist. Anti-trend was written in Bali, Indonesia, where she has lived for several years. She is currently writing a book with the working title Uncultivated. Harper’s main research areas are resilient design solutions, sustainable living, reduction of consumption through design, permaculture, cultural tendencies and trend research, and the preservation of endangered crafts-traditions. She worked as a lecturer of Sustainable Fashion at the Copenhagen School of Design and Technology for a decade, and continues to teach her theories on design, aesthetics, and sustainability at various international design academies.
I really did enjoy this book about aesthetics within fashion. Reading the book it was clear to me what Kristine Harper wants to communicate, and it is easy to relate the examples of the book to own real life examples. Also the visual language of the book makes it quite easy to discuss the topics with people that did not read the book. Further more the book really did inspire me and I sometimes had to stop reading and draw my ideas. I read the danish version but it is also translated into english for non danish readers.