Crocker / Chiveralls Subverting Consumerism

Reuse in an Accelerated World
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-317-28113-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 246 Seiten

Reihe: Antinomies

The dominant understanding of reuse for sustainability is a technical one, which assumes reuse’s benefits are limited to the new material, energy and emissions avoided by repurposing, but reuse is much more than that. Reuse and repurposing have always been part of human engagement with objects and spaces. Thus reuse and remaking are important topics in sustainable design, architecture, cultural studies, anthropology, and the sociology, economics and politics of consumption.

Given our current environmental crises and the unsustainable expansion of global consumerism in an age of social and technological acceleration, the social and cultural impact of reuse or repurposing upon consumption practices in everyday life is particularly important.

In design, reuse has more than a symbolic, social or cultural value. Reuse protests against and subverts the dominance of a ‘waste-ready’ accelerated newness in contemporary consumerism. Reuse establishes more durable and culturally specific relationships with objects and spaces, and more stable identities at a time of continuous and rapid change.

Subverting Consumerism: Reuse in an Accelerated World is the first book to explore the three major facets of reuse: its meaning and aesthetics, the affects and effects of design for reuse, and reuse as a changing social practice. Drawing on examples from Africa, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, it engages with ideas and theories informing current reuse practices in our accelerated world and sets the scene for understanding how we are mining the past to reshape the future.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Crocker, Robert

Chiveralls, Keri

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface, Stuart Walker 1. Hyper-Consumption, Authenticity and the Resurgence of Reuse in Contemporary Culture, Robert Crocker Part I: The Aesthetics and Meaning of Reuse 2. Trashion Treasure: The allure and re-functioning of discarded objects, Wendy S. Shaw 3. ‘Keeping Places’ and the Re-Use of Cultural Heritage, Sally Butler 4. ‘I Hate Cheap Knock-Offs’: Rethinking Chinese architectural copying, reuse and cultural appropriation through Ruskin, Benjamin, and Hadid, Chris Brisbin 5. Social Experiments in Re-Valuing Waste: From art to alternative economies, Max Liboiron Part II: Material Landscapes, Buildings, Design and Reuse 6. The Reuse Voice in Design, Tobiah Horton 7. The Aesthetics of Reuse: The Materiality and vernacular tradition of Wang Shu’s architecture, Hing-Wah Chau 8. From Waste To Relic, Ruth Oldham 9. Closing the Water And Soil Cycle: Accommodating the West Rand, Bruno de Meulder, Hannah Le Roux, Tahira Toffah and Wim Wambec 10. From Roller Skates To Super Heroes: The Lives of the Trocadero, Catherine Forbes Part III: Changing Social Practices and Reuse 11. Repair Now: Barriers and trajectories for change, Guiseppa Salvi and Tim Cooper 12. The Sociality of Second-Hand Goods: Trading the remnants of material life in Hong Kong, Trang X. Ta 13. ‘Share + Repair = Care: Re-coding reuse and establishing dematerialization practices by design, Eleni Kalantidou 14. Composting as Everyday Alchemy: Producing compost from food waste in 21st century urban environments, Vivienne Waller, Linda Blackall and Peter Newton 15. Reclaiming the Past To Mould The Future: Waste as metaphor in Earthship construction, Keri Chiveralls