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Aesthetic Sustainability - Product Design and Sustainable Usage
Why do we readily dispose of some things, whereas we keep and maintain others for years, despite their obvious wear and tear? Can a greater understanding of aesthetic value lead to a more strategic and sustainable approach to product design? Aesthetic Sustainability: Product Design and Sustainable Usage 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 expressional durability in the design process.
Aesthetic Sustainability: Product Design and Sustainable Usage is related to emotional durability in the sense that the focus is on the psychological and sensuous bond between subject and object. But the subject–object connection is based on more than emotions: aesthetically sustainable objects continuously add nourishment to human life. This book explores the difference between sentimental value and aesthetic value, and it offers suggestions for operational approaches that can be implemented in the design process to increase aesthetic sustainability. This book also offers a thorough presentation of aesthetics, focusing on the correlation between the philosophical approach to the aesthetic experience and the durable design experience.
The book is of interest to students and scholars working in the fields of design, arts, the humanities and social sciences; additionally, it will speak to designers and other professionals with an interest in sustainability and aesthetic value.
Aesthetic Sustainability: Product Design and Sustainable Usage is related to emotional durability in the sense that the focus is on the psychological and sensuous bond between subject and object. But the subject–object connection is based on more than emotions: aesthetically sustainable objects continuously add nourishment to human life. This book explores the difference between sentimental value and aesthetic value, and it offers suggestions for operational approaches that can be implemented in the design process to increase aesthetic sustainability. This book also offers a thorough presentation of aesthetics, focusing on the correlation between the philosophical approach to the aesthetic experience and the durable design experience.
The book is of interest to students and scholars working in the fields of design, arts, the humanities and social sciences; additionally, it will speak to designers and other professionals with an interest in sustainability and aesthetic value.
170 pages, Hardcover
First published June 18, 2015
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About the author
Kristine H. Harper
2 books12 followersKristine 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.
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.
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January 12, 2022
This is the best book I have ever read, I saw sustainability in a whole new way.
March 4, 2021
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.
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.
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews