Material Culture and Mass Consumption

TL;DR: A new method that facilitates requirements gathering in the home with a heterogeneous group of users is presented, called the Home Workshop, which draws mainly on methods that have emerged from Participatory Design.

TL;DR: The authors argues for a fluid understanding of materiality and immateriality in the production of alternative music places that attends more fully to the symbiotic nature of motivations, labor, and social, political, and economic domains, with implications for a variety of arts contexts, scenes, and genres.

TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between people and their things when the consumer or owner is also, potentially, the maker is investigated, by analyzing the ways in which people construct personal narratives and/or identities through the construction of specific items intended for themselves or others.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the use of architecture and architectural space to structure particular levels of social identity in late medieval and early modern York, focusing on the detailed case study of a specific group of medieval public buildings the guildhalls of York, c. 1350-1630, and are concerned with the ways in which the structuration of identity within these buildings was bound up with the reproduction of particular forms of religious ideology and political power.