Emotionally Durable Design
“Waste is a failed relationship”
- Sustainability design lacks philosophical depth
- Product design focuses to much on tech and functionality and wastes potential
- Products are not able to evolve with their owners or sustain empathy
- Material consumption is the active creation of self
- Awareness of the ecological crisis paralizes the individual
- Consumption is desire/need driven
- Consumption is actually meaning, not matter. Matter only holds the meaning
- Consumers undig layers of meaning until there is no more
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Obsolescenes is also a consumer problem, since the product cant evolve with owner
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deflowering (sexist term): getting to know, familiarising, outgrow - Sartre
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modern products are to smart → no mistery
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we search for thigns that support our own perception
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→ animism as a psychological support frameworks to embed meaning in the environment
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ego is expressed through objects, not words
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empathy has a lifespan, waste is a lack of empathy
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sustainable/durable materials add actually to the pile of waste
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Emotionally Durable Design exists on an individual or user basis. It needs to move to a societal basis as well, meaning epistemic or even ontological level.
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the difference between physical and epitemological animation/animatedness