Jonathan Chapman

Emotionally Durable Design presents counterpoints to our ‘throwaway society’ by developing powerful design tools, methods, and frameworks that build resilience into relationships between people and things. The book takes us beyond the sustainable design field’s established focus on energy and materials to engage the underlying psychological phenomena that shape patterns of consumption and waste. In fluid and accessible writing, the...

Emotionally Durable Design presents counterpoints to our ‘throwaway society’ by developing powerful design tools, methods and frameworks that build resilience into relationships between people and things. The book takes us beyond the sustainable design field’s established focus on energy and materials, to engage the underlying psychological phenomena that shape patterns of consumption and waste. In fluid and accessible writing, the...