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Design for next… year. The challenge of designing for material change

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posted on 2017-05-19, 13:54 authored by Ben Bridgens, Debra LilleyDebra Lilley
From the moment of purchase, pristine objects are subjected to an array of stimuli including wear, impact, heat, light, water and air which alter their tactile and aesthetic properties. Material change is often regarded as ‘damage’ or ‘degradation’, but has potential to be used as a tool to engender emotional engagement to an object. We present a framework for designers to better understand how materials change with use, and in turn how people respond to materials as they change. Key challenges are identified which must be overcome to use this framework in design practice people’s physical interaction with objects is poorly understood, it is difficult to simulate material change, materials resources for designers do not provide information about material change, and people’s responses to aged materials depend on a complex web of interacting factors.

Funding

The authors would like to thank the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council who provided all funding for this work as part of the Closed Loop Emotionally Valuable E-waste Recovery project (EP/K026380/1).

History

School

  • Design

Published in

Design for Next 12th EAD Conference

Citation

BRIDGENS, B. and LILLEY, D., 2017. Design for next… year. The challenge of designing for material change. Presented at: Design for Next, 12th EAD Conference, Rome, Italy, 12th-14th April 2017.

Publisher

European Academy of Design © The Authors

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2017-03-01

Publication date

2017

Notes

This is a conference paper. It was presented at: http://www.designfornext.org

Language

  • en

Location

Sapienza University of Rome