Description: Further DetailsTitle: Things Worth KeepingCondition: NewSubtitle: The Value of Attachment in a Disposable WorldISBN-10: 0816677239EAN: 9780816677238ISBN: 9780816677238Publisher: University of Minnesota PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 06/09/2020Description: A timely examination of the attachments we form to objects and how they might be used to reduce waste Rampant consumerism has inundated our planet with pollution and waste. Yet attempts to create environmentally friendly forms of consumption are often co-opted by corporations looking to sell us more stuff. In Things Worth Keeping, Christine Harold investigates the attachments we form to the objects we buy, keep, and discard, and explores how these attachments might be marshaled to create less wasteful practices and balance our consumerist and ecological impulses. Although all economies produce waste, no system generates as much or has become so adept at hiding its excesses as today’s mode of global capitalism. This book suggests that managing the material excesses of our lives as consumers requires us to build on, rather than reject, our desire for and attraction to objects. Increasing environmental awareness on its own will be ineffective at reversing ecological devastation, Harold argues, unless it is coupled with a more thorough understanding of how and why we love the things that imbue our lives with pleasure, meaning, and utility. From Marie Kondo’s method for decluttering that asks whether the things in our lives “spark joy” to the advent of emotionally durable design, which seeks to reduce consumption and waste by increasing the meaningfulness of the relationship between user and product, Harold explores how consumer psychology and empathetic design can transform our perception of consumer products from disposable to interconnected. An urgent call for rethinking consumerism, Things Worth Keeping shows that by recognizing our responsibility for the things we produce, we can become better stewards of the planet.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 216mmItem Length: 140mmItem Width: 38mmAuthor: Christine HaroldGenre: Arts & PhotographyTopic: Fashion & Design, Business & FinanceRelease Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Things Worth Keeping
Title: Things Worth Keeping
Subtitle: The Value of Attachment in a Disposable World
ISBN-10: 0816677239
EAN: 9780816677238
ISBN: 9780816677238
Release Date: 06/09/2020
Release Year: 2020
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Arts & Photography
Topic: Business & Finance
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Things Worth Keeping : the Value of Attachment in a Disposable World
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Item Height: 1.5 in
Subject: History & Criticism, Consumer Behavior, Economics / General, Developmental / General, Economics / Theory
Publication Year: 2020
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 17.9 Oz
Author: Christine Harold
Subject Area: Design, Psychology, Business & Economics
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Hardcover