Affect and the Experimental Design of Domestic Products

Guy Keulemans
2017 Leonardo: Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology  
This research is concerned with the experimental design of furniture and homewares, and their affective relationships to issues of production, consumption and the environment. Most massproduced domestic objects use standardised designs and materials, which, apart from their oftennoted detrimental effects on the environment, also limit the possibilities for expressivity and affective encounter. Experimental design practices can open up spaces for affective relations with domestic objects. This
more » ... search proposes that a particular process, that of 'repair', can facilitate these encounters. Transformative practices of repair mobilise intensities, which create new possibilities for re-situating our thinking about, and place within, production and consumption. These different modes of repair are conveyed through the practice-based research, which forms the core of this thesis.
doi:10.1162/leon_a_01495 fatcat:fzhmvc42pjbqvnr65arxdxmexy