Material awareness: promoting reflection on everyday materiality

  • Authors:
  • James Pierce

  • Affiliations:
  • Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA

  • Venue:
  • CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Drawing on existing design approaches, this paper argues for the experiential desirability and critical importance--in terms of environmental sustainability--of designing for reflection on everyday material things themselves. This paper motivates and proposes a material awareness design approach, further drawing on developments from philosophy of technology and design theory. A series of conceptual designs are presented to help illustrate this approach.