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Author:   Kristine Hornshoj Harper ,  Theodore Guidotti
Publisher:   Oro Editions
Imprint:   Oro Editions
Weight:   0.752kg
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9781954081055

ISBN 10:   1954081057
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   24 December 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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FOREWORD INTRODUCTION 1 ANTI-TREND VERSUS TREND To Be or Not to Be Trendy The Immaterialist Analyzing Anti-trendy Tendencies Basic Assumptions The Desires of a Time An Anecdote Concerning the Lowering of Productivity Balancing Between Too Much and Too Little degrowth bad faith the fisherman and the businessman when assumptions collide 2 ANTI-TRENDY INTUITION The Intuitive Compass Right and Wrong Hunches Logical Conclusions Confirmatory Bias Intersubjectivity Immediate Knowledge Getting to the core of things Mindful Reduction Object Analysis Common Ground and Open Horizons The Core of Sustainable Living Disrupting the Familiar Epoché Human Common Ground The Importance of Fiction The Stabile Core The Sublime Moment of Insight Momentary Elimination of the Familiar Transitions Synaesthesia and Sensory Experiences Aisthetikos Open Sensing magic Learning to Navigate Intuitively Intuitive Forecasting ubuntu the guiding principle of inner needs 3 ANTI-TREND AND AUTHENTICITY Living in despair The Aesthete Civil Disobedience, or the Art of Choosing “the Good” Change Must Come from the Individual Oppression restlessness The Importance of Acknowledgement the master and the slave To Will Oneself Free is also to Will Others Free being connected Genuine Freedom the ethicist Irrational versus Pre-rational Consumption The Sustainable Golden Mean encouraging usage discovering aesthetic links Sustainable Storytelling values and beliefs sustainable forms of appeal pathos Time and Value No-pain-no-gain Resilient Living Nourishing Repetitions A Life Worth Sustaining Status Symbols The Emperor and the Painter 4 ANTI-TRENDY EXPERIENCES OF BEAUTY Anti-trendy Perceived Obsolescence Magical Things Disinterested Pleasure Aesthetic Nourishment Resilient Aesthetics The Cathartic Experience robustness relevance Unbearable Lightness Wild and Raw Aesthetics Rewilding the Design-object Adaptability The Beauty of Rhythms The Daily Chorus Continuity Aura 5 THREE ANTI-TRENDY REASONS FOR DESIGNING NEW OBJECTS IN A WORLD WITH WAY TOO MANY THINGS Waste Materials, Deconstruction, and Upcycling Crafty Imperfections Boro and Hacks Disassembly Sustaining and Empowerment The Essence of a Craft Expression the tactile bond tactile literacy Craft Innovation Democratic Sustainability Encouraging Sustainable Living Collaborative Consumption: Swapping, Sharing, and Repairing the characteristics of a shareable object inclusive design repairability, flexibility, and aesthetics Long-lived and Short-lived Objects encouraging variety and celebrating change the butterfly embracing transience facticity and transcendence The Open, Raw Design-object broadness and affordability no person ever steps into the same river twice 6 THE ANTI-TRENDY DESIGN- OBJECT Creating Resilient Designobjects Natural Limitations Alteration Resilience to Changing Needs regrowth Resilience to Anti-trendy Perceived Obsolescence Deterioration Resilience to Fleeting Trends Resilience to Exploitation of Natural Resources permaculture anti-growth closedness versus openness Biblography About the Author

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Kristine H. Harper is the author of Aesthetic Sustainability and writer of the blog The Immaterialist. Anti-trend was written in Bali, Indonesia, where she has lived for several years. Harper’s main research areas are resilient design solutions, sustainable living, reduction of consumption through design, permaculture, cultural tendencies and trend research, and the preservation of endangered crafts-traditions. She worked as a lecturer of Sustainable Fashion at the Copenhagen School of Design and Technology for a decade, and continues to teach her theories on design, aesthetics, and sustainability at various international design academies.

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