The Spirit of Design : Objects, Environment and Meaning (Paperback)

1. Introduction  2. Sambo's Stones: Sustainability and Meaningful Objects  3. Following Will'o The Wisps and Chasing Ghosts: Re-Directing Design Through Practice-Based Research  4. After Taste: the Power and Prejudice of Product Appearance  5. Extant Objects: Seeing Through Design  6. Sermons in Stones: Argument and Artefact for Sustainability  7. Gentle Arrangements: Objects of Disciplined Empathy  8. The Chimera Reified: Design, Meaning and the Post-Consumerism Object  9. The Spirit of Design: Notes from the Shakuhachi Flute  10. Wrapped Attention: Designing Products for Evolving Permanence and Enduring Meaning  11. Temporal Objects: Design, Change and Sustainability  12. Meaning in the Mundane: Aesthetics, Technology and Spiritual Values  13. Wordless Questions: the Physical, the Virtual and the Meaningful  14. Epilogue