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Material awareness: promoting reflection on everyday materiality

Drawing on existing design approaches, this paper argues for the experiential desirability and critical importance--in terms of environmental sustainability--of designing for reflection on everyday material things themselves. This paper motivates and proposes a material awareness design approach, further drawing on developments from philosophy of technology and design theory. A series of conceptual designs are presented to help illustrate this approach.