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Meaningful Stuff
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Author : Jonathan Chapman
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2021-08-03
Meaningful Stuff written by Jonathan Chapman and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-03 with Design categories.
An argument for a design philosophy of better, not more. Never have we wanted, owned, and wasted so much stuff. Our consumptive path through modern life leaves a wake of social and ecological destruction--sneakers worn only once, bicycles barely even ridden, and forgotten smartphones languishing in drawers. By what perverse alchemy do our newest, coolest things so readily transform into meaningless junk? In Meaningful Stuff, Jonathan Chapman investigates why we throw away things that still work, and shows how we can design products, services, and systems that last. Obsolescence is an economically driven design decision--a plan to hasten a product's functional or psychological undesirability. Many electronic devices, for example, are intentionally impossible to dismantle for repair or recycling, their brief use-career proceeding inexorably to a landfill. A sustainable design specialist who serves as a consultant to global businesses and governmental organizations, Chapman calls for the decoupling of economic activity from mindless material consumption and shows how to do it. Chapman shares his vision for an "experience heavy, material light" design sensibility. This vital and timely new design philosophy reveals how meaning emerges from designed encounters between people and things, explores ways to increase the quality and longevity of our relationships with objects and the systems behind them, and ultimately demonstrates why design can--and must--lead the transition to a sustainable future.
Meaningful Stuff
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Author : JONATHAN. CHAPMAN
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Meaningful Stuff written by JONATHAN. CHAPMAN and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.
Meaningful Stuff
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Author : Jonathan Chapman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Meaningful Stuff written by Jonathan Chapman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Commercial products categories.
"In a world suffocated by people and things, this book exposes why we throwaway things that still work, and shows how we can design products, services, and experiences that last"--
Materials Experience
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Author : Jonathan Chapman
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier Inc. Chapters
Release Date : 2013-10-24
Materials Experience written by Jonathan Chapman and has been published by Elsevier Inc. Chapters this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-24 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This chapter will focus not so much on “what” we do as consumers, but “why” we do it, leading to a broader evolutionary and behavioral discourse on the meaning and role of objects in our lives, drawing into focus the essential relationship between our enduring need for material experiences, and the impacts this has on the natural world. This chapter examines the meaningful proxies, triggers, and metaphors embedded within material experiences, exposing alternative understandings of the immaterial culture underpinning our stuff, and the manifold dialogues we are continually engaged in with the designed objects that touch our lives.
Lisdalia
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Author : Brian Caswell
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
Release Date : 1994
Lisdalia written by Brian Caswell and has been published by Univ. of Queensland Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Fiction categories.
It's bad enough being the smartest kid in the school, but when you're a girl, and when your father still thinks it's a man's world, and when you never learned to back down from an argument, it's even worse. Lisdalia has all these problems, and more. Of course, it helps if you have a couple of really good friends, like Mike and Tanja, and a teacher who cares, but in the end, when things get serious, it's who you are inside that counts. Who ever said it was easy being a kid? Lisdalia is the second volume of Brian Caswell's critically acclaimed Boundary Park Trilogy, which began with Mike and concludes with Maddie.
Meaningful Stories For You
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Author : Lindsey Summer
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2021-10
Meaningful Stories For You written by Lindsey Summer and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10 with categories.
Every good life story leaves us thinking, and the most valuable lessons learned from life tales are always the most profound. Putting stories together resulted in the creation of this book. It does, however, include important life lessons. Despite the fact that it is merely a collection of short stories, it provides valuable lessons that will help us grow into the people we want to be after reading it. Read and experience
Meaningful Stories For You Looking For Meaningful Things Around Us
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Author : Russell ADRIAN
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-12-16
Meaningful Stories For You Looking For Meaningful Things Around Us written by Russell ADRIAN and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-16 with categories.
Every good life story leaves us thinking, and the most valuable lessons learned from life tales are always the most profound. Putting stories together resulted in the creation of this book. It does, however, include important life lessons. Despite the fact that it is merely a collection of short stories, it provides valuable lessons that will help us grow into the people we want to be after reading it. Read and experience
How To Live A Meaningful Life Focusing On Things That Matter
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Author : Tim Sledge
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-08-15
How To Live A Meaningful Life Focusing On Things That Matter written by Tim Sledge and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-15 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
After my life of faith collapsed, I picked up the broken pieces and tried to envision a new way of living. Faced with a multitude of choices about what the new version of me might look like, I began to think for myself about how to build a meaningful life. I decided that if I could describe a religion-not-required way of finding meaning in life by focusing on things that really matter, it would be something worth sharing-especially if it could make sense and work for anyone, regardless of religious beliefs, political stance, personality type, lifestyle, or generational label. And that's how this book came to be. Regardless of whether you're a free-thinking skeptic or a person of faith, my hope is that in these pages you can discover new pathways toward values, purpose, and meaning as you consider what matters most in your life. Tim Sledge
Comics And Stuff
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Author : Henry Jenkins
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2020-04-14
Comics And Stuff written by Henry Jenkins and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-14 with Social Science categories.
Considers how comics display our everyday stuff—junk drawers, bookshelves, attics—as a way into understanding how we represent ourselves now For most of their history, comics were widely understood as disposable—you read them and discarded them, and the pulp paper they were printed on decomposed over time. Today, comic books have been rebranded as graphic novels—clothbound high-gloss volumes that can be purchased in bookstores, checked out of libraries, and displayed proudly on bookshelves. They are reviewed by serious critics and studied in university classrooms. A medium once considered trash has been transformed into a respectable, if not elite, genre. While the American comics of the past were about hyperbolic battles between good and evil, most of today’s graphic novels focus on everyday personal experiences. Contemporary culture is awash with stuff. They give vivid expression to a culture preoccupied with the processes of circulation and appraisal, accumulation and possession. By design, comics encourage the reader to scan the landscape, to pay attention to the physical objects that fill our lives and constitute our familiar surroundings. Because comics take place in a completely fabricated world, everything is there intentionally. Comics are stuff; comics tell stories about stuff; and they display stuff. When we use the phrase “and stuff” in everyday speech, we often mean something vague, something like “etcetera.” In this book, stuff refers not only to physical objects, but also to the emotions, sentimental attachments, and nostalgic longings that we express—or hold at bay—through our relationships with stuff. In Comics and Stuff, his first solo authored book in over a decade, pioneering media scholar Henry Jenkins moves through anthropology, material culture, literary criticism, and art history to resituate comics in the cultural landscape. Through over one hundred full-color illustrations, using close readings of contemporary graphic novels, Jenkins explores how comics depict stuff and exposes the central role that stuff plays in how we curate our identities, sustain memory, and make meaning. Comics and Stuff presents an innovative new way of thinking about comics and graphic novels that will change how we think about our stuff and ourselves.
Up
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Author : David Niven, Ph.D.
language : en
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
Release Date : 2010-04-15
Up written by David Niven, Ph.D. and has been published by Hay House, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-15 with Self-Help categories.
Insufficient healthcare coverage, a weakened economy, the fragile environment—most people would be hard pressed to find even one example of how things are better today than they were yesterday. How about one for each day of the year? In his engaging and informative new book, Up!, David Niven, the best-selling author of the 100 Simple Secrets series (more than a million copies sold in the U.S. alone), gives us 365 examples of how life is better now than ever before. We think we’re running out of time—but we actually live twice as long as our great-grandparents did. We think our culture is in decline—but worldwide IQ scores are higher today than ever before. We think life keeps getting harder—but the percentage of people who feel happy is growing every year. Well researched and full of insight, Up! not only proves that life today is a vast improvement from the past but also that it continues to get better with each passing day. For those who need convincing or for those who need reminding, Up! is a great resource for appreciating how far we’ve come and realizing that, in all ways, things are truly looking Up!