everyday hero: enhancing civility . . .

ubiquitous quality factor number 02 •
everyday design hero:
enhancing civility . . .

“the aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity & familiarity.”

philosopher ludwig wittgenstein

01) lightness . . .

02) enhancing civility . . .

03) beautility . . .

04) robust, resilient & repairable . . .

05) embracing aspects of homo ludens . . .

06) anthropomorphic . . .

07) adaptable | transformable . . .

08) intuitive | self-explanatory . . .

09) accessible to 90% of the world . . .

10) a variation on a theme . . .

11) ephemeral . . .

12) wabi-sabi (grows better with time &/or use) . . .

13) improvisation . . .
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the modern psyche is a social psyche …
modern objects are not just for the upper class, but for everyone.

adolf loos
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der moderne geist ist ein sozialer geist …
moderne gegenstände sind nicht nur für eine oberschicht da, sondern für jeden.

adolf loos
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civility is the something extra | comfort, hidden goodness, personal worth,
helping others, play | the joy we take in our achievements and
the compassion we show toward our all-too-human faults . . .

bill stumpf: the ice palace that melted away . . .
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suggested reading &/or the dialects of design continued, enhancing civility:

01) alter, kevin editor. dance halls of central texas: pre-world war two wooden structures.
austin, center for american architecture and design, 2005.
02) hara, kenya, et al. subtle. tokyo, takeo company limited, 2014.
03) ostroff, daniel, editor. an eames anthology.
new haven and london, yale university press, 2015.
04) neuhart, john, and marilyn. neuhart, editors, with ray eames.
eames design: the work of the office of charles and ray eames.
new york, harry n. abrams, inc., 1989.
* 05) peabody, elizabeth palmer, editor. aesthetic papers.
boston, the editor, new york: g. p. putnam, 1849.
06) potter, norman. what is a designer. london, hyphen press, 2002.
07) roddier, mireille. lavoirs.
new york, princeton architectural press, 2003.
08) stumpf, william eugene. the ice palace that melted away: restoring civility
and other lost virtues to everyday life. new york, pantheon books, 1998.
09) thoreau, henry david. walden: or a life in the woods.
boston, ticknor and fields, 1854.

* the work most readers know as “civil disobedience” did not appear under
that title during henry david thoreau’s lifetime. as a lecture delivered at the
concord lyceum on january 26, 1848, it was titled “on the relation of the individual to the state.” when published the following year in elizabeth palmer peabody’s aesthetic papers, it bore the title “resistance to civil government.” the essay first
appeared as “civil disobedience,” four years after thoreau’s death, in the collection, a yankee in canada, with anti-slavery and reform papers (1866).