The Countless Lives of Newspapers and the Right to Repurpose

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12922397
AutoresTomás Errázuriz (0000-0002-5772-1736, Twitter (United States), autor de correspondencia), Robert Greene (0000-0002-1930-320X, Twitter (United States))
Año2021
Volumen13
Número3
Páginas277-303
Fecha de publicación2021-09-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDesign and Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1754-7075 • E-ISSN: 1754-7083
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17547075.2021.1967687
OpenAlexW3201082775
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas35

For the past decade, the environmental agenda has been unavoidable for social actors such as governments, NGOs, companies, and individuals. The climate crisis has also reached the field of design, demanding production and disposal processes that do not take a toll on the planet. This article focuses on the overlooked strategy of repurposing, through which everyday consumers transform and subvert simple objects, providing them with novel functions and a new lifespan. To understand how certain elements of design may affect consumers’ willingness to reinvent things, we take newspapers as a case study, giving their plasticity and their many diverse and unexpected functions. Throughout the analysis, a range of physical and social features are singled out, offering novel paths to sustainable design and reflecting on how the industry may prepare objects in advance to be reconfigured at the hands of their users

Advertising · Business · Field (mathematics · Newspaper · Political science · Public relations · Repurposing · Toll · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis · Design Education and Practice · Engineering · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Marketing