Design for (Emotional) Durability

Jonathan Chapman is Course Leader of the MA Sustainable Design at the University of Brighton, UK, and author of Emotionally Durable Design: Objects, Experiences and Empathy (Earthscan, 2005). As a sustainable design theorist, his work seeks to understand and reveal the behavioral phenomena that shape patterns of consumption and waste. His research has matured through sustained scholarship and reflection from polemical activist roots to developing effective counter-points to the unsustainable character of contemporary material culture, and the pioneering of innovative ways of designing, consuming and behaving in the twenty-first Century.