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Designing products for material simplifiers: antinomy or prospective for design?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2024

Céline Perea  and
Cédric Masclet
Céline Perea
Affiliation:
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble INP, CERAG, France
Cédric Masclet*
Affiliation:
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, G-SCOP, France
*
cedric.masclet@g-scop.fr

Abstract

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Considering the growing change towards material simplicity of consumers which consists in rejecting the consumer society by decreasing material needs and their consumption we interrogate in this research the possibility of products to support its transition of consumers. We address in a matrix product characteristics adaptation to pathways of consumers stemming from non-voluntary to radical disadopters. The main question of this work interrogates how products can address the disadoption/material simplicity phenomenon.

Keywords

sustainabilityproduct designhuman behaviourmaterial simplicity
Type
Design for Sustainability
Information
Proceedings of the Design Society , Volume 4: DESIGN 2024 , May 2024 , pp. 1409 - 1416
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