Aesthetic Sustainability av Kristine Harper

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<P>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? <I>Aesthetic Sustainability:</I><I>Product Design and Sustainable Usage </I>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.</P><I><P>Aesthetic Sustainability: Product Design and Sustainable Usage </I>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