Take One Object

Thoughtful and elegantly crafted, this book brings fresh energy to design culture studies. Avoiding dense theoretical language, forty-five captivating and accessible essays explore the stuff that persists in our age of multiple displacements. Take One Object radically revises the act of noticing. * Guy Julier, Aalto University, Finland *
A warm and personal project, the strength of this volume lies within its ability to reveal such rich object studies. Take One Object opens up new possibilities for provocations that nudge research away from scientific approaches and towards a creative practice, one that evokes feelings, thoughts and relationships. * Judah Armani, Royal College of Art, UK *
Take One Object provides valuable means for students to examine relationships between objects and daily experience, developing both sensitivity to material environments and critical analytical skills. * Miso Kim, Northeastern University, USA *
Take One Object brings together a bouquet of personal narratives, each portraying a soliloquy of the authors’ close relationships with their chosen objects. This wonderful compilation of essays provides a way to reflexively articulate and authenticate the deeper nuances of personal experience. The volume asks whether the object-human relationship is as simple as ownership, or whether objects, in some sense, come to possess some part of the owner. It provides a fascinating glimpse into how everyday interactions with objects give rise to experiences imbued with emotions, and how some objects become a permanent, yet often unrecognized, part of our lived experience, shaping and colouring our memories and life stories. * Aneesha Sharma, Indian Institute of Technology, India *