Experiential Meaning of Everyday Design
Narratives In and Beyond Objects
Keywords:
Design, Aesthetics, Imagination, Experiential KnowledgeAbstract
Three contemporary aesthetic approaches address design: functional beauty, adherent beauty, and the aesthetics of everyday life. This article engages with them and confronts the “dilemma of everyday aesthetics,” proposing that aesthetic valuation plays a key role in choosing everyday objects when their replacement becomes necessary. Through imagination, we evaluate their usability by envisioning fictional scenarios that simulate potential use.
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