Emotions for the Necessary

Download

163-175.pdf

Date

2008

Author

Savaş, Özlem

Metadata

Show full item record

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Item Usage Stats

77
views

26
downloads

Emotional relationships with material objects can not be thought as isolated from social and material conditions of existence. This paper is an attempt to introduce the question of economic means into debates on "design and emotion". It firstly addresses the role of economic means in crediting objects with emotions and subsequently evaluates approaches of 'design and emotion' with regard to varied meanings and ways of forging emotional relationships with objects, which is largely shaped by material conditions of existence. Based on individual interviews, it was found that economically deprived people tend to articulate "emotions for the necessary" through a narrative on material objects which privileges necessities. Yet, 'design and emotion' movement, basing itself on a divorce between function and emotion and dissociating emotions from the world of necessities, excludes those emotions for the necessary. Keywords

Subject Keywords

Emotions and necessities, Emotions and economic means, Design and emotion, Emotional attachment

URI

http://jfa.arch.metu.edu.tr/archive/0258-5316/2008/cilt25/sayi_1/163-175.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/50904

Journal

ODTÜ Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi

Collections

Department of Architecture, Article

Suggestions

OpenMETU
Core

Design and emotion' in the context of social differentiation Özlem, Savaş (2019-4-1) Different social classes diverge in their goals, concerns and attitudes towards material objects. Therefore, consumption preferences reflect and reproduce social differences among people. As Veblen (1957) and Bourdieu (1984) suggests, diversity in tastes among different social classes is a crucial factor which situates material objects in the context of social differentiation. The empirical data that were detected from a larger study on attachment to and detachment from products suggested that different soc...
Influence of Aesthetic Properties on Stimulating Emotional Responses Sevener, Zeynep; Asatekin, Mehmet (2019-4-1) The purpose of this paper is to provide a framework that demonstrates the role of aesthetic properties in stimulating emotional experiences. The framework is constructed as the answer to the question: "What are the consequences of the stimulus of aesthetic properties on product related emotions and experiences?”. The focus of the study is in investigating the links between the visual qualities of the products and the emotional experiences. The immediate sensorial experiences transpire during the initial ste...
Relationships among attachment anxiety, avoidance, accepting the past, and autobiographical memory Şengül (Boyacıoğlu), İnci; Sümer, Nebi; Department of Psychology (2006) The purpose of the present study is to investigate the relationships among accepting and reminiscing the past, attachment dimensions, and autobiographical memory. University students (N=182) participated to the study (105 women, 77 men). The relationships among attachment anxiety, avoidance, accepting and reminiscing the past, and autobiographical memory were examined within the context of emotionally charged memories and the phenomenological properties of the recalled autobiographical memories, such as the...
Anger in psychotherapy practises: a discourse analysis Evran, Ahmet; Gençöz, Faruk; Department of Psychology (2019) The purpose of the current thesis is to explore the constructions of anger in the context of psychotherapy from a social constructionist perspective. In contrast to the mainstream understanding of emotions, anger is treated as an emotion which is constructed and reconstructed by the speakers in the context of social bonds throughout human history. Being compatible with this perspective, discourse analysis is conducted to the transcriptions of psychotherapy sessions in order to explore discursive organizatio...
Rage against the machine: the case for system level emotions Solak, Nevin; Jost, John; Sümer, Nebi; Glore, Gerald (2012-01-01) Although psychologists have generally conceptualized emotions in light of individual‐ and group‐ level approaches, in the current paper we propose that there are also system‐level emotional events, including both system‐based emotions (experienced as a direct or indirect consequence of system‐level characteristics) and system‐targeted emotions (reflecting evaluations that support or oppose the overarching social system). We begin by discussing how emotions are embedded in the social system and what system‐l...

Citation Formats

Ö. Savaş, “Emotions for the Necessary,” ODTÜ Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 163–175, 2008, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: http://jfa.arch.metu.edu.tr/archive/0258-5316/2008/cilt25/sayi_1/163-175.pdf.