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| Author: | Walker, S. |
| Title: | The Chimera reified: Design, meaning and the post-consumerism object |
| Journal: | Design Journal
2010 : VOL: 13:1, p. 9-30 |
| Index terms: | design management product design consumer goods |
| Freeterms: | electronic goods post-consumerism sustainability |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This paper considers the design of short-lived electronic consumer goods (hereafter as: el-prods.) within contemporary society. It suggests a direction that is more consistent with the priorities of sustainability and also with more profound understandings of meaning. A brief overview of el-prods. is given as to their instrumental, social and positional attributes, along with some of their social and environmental (here as: env-al.) consequences. Presented is a simple conceptual 'post-consumerism' electronic object encapsulating various aspects of contemporary critique. Based on this study drawing on philosophical and env-al. critiques of technology, new priorities for design practice are developed. |
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