• DOI:10.2752/175470812X13281948975459
Corpus ID: 145281245

The Object of Nightingales: Design Values for a Meaningful Material Culture

@article{Walker2012TheOO,
  title={The Object of Nightingales: Design Values for a Meaningful Material Culture},
  author={S. Walker},
  journal={Design and Culture},
  year={2012},
  volume={4},
  pages={149 - 170}
}

S. Walker

Published 2012

Sociology

Design and Culture

ABSTRACT This discussion considers a basis for design values that is congruent with age-old understandings of human meaning as well as with contemporary notions of sustainability. A critique of naturalistic materialism and its relationship to unsustainable interpretations of progress and growth is followed by a consideration of practical, social, and personal meaning and the relationship of these to human values. A basis for meaningful values emerging from the world's wisdom traditions, and… CONTINUE READING

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