Dear Pierre,
Here are my two cents to you:
Ben Highmore has done quite a good work with the concept of everyday. If for some reason you are not already familiar with ir, here’s a list:
Highmore, B. (2002). Everyday life and cultural theory. An introduction (2003 ed.). London: Routledge.
Highmore, B. (Ed.). (2002). The everyday life reader. London: Routledge.
Highmore, B. (2011). Ordinary lives. Studies in the everyday. London: Routledge.
Highmore defines everyday same as you, as relational, so maybe not very fruitful to you but The everyday life reader is a really very nice collection of texts.
On a perhaps more interesting note, your interest in habitual turning creative reminds me of Creativity of Action by Hans Joas.
Joas, H. (1992). The creativity of action (J. Gaines & P. Keast, Trans. 1996 ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
The book is hard core sociology but could provide you with some solid concepts to develop your thinking further. If I remember correctly, the core idea is that there isn’t that much actions that are creative but rather all human action is creative but with varying degrees, including rational action etc..
I did my phd about how people live with design on daily basis, habitually, if you wish. I managed to avoid lengthy discussion on the concept of everyday but what I have read on the topic suggests that “everyday” is a similar kind of concept than what Martin Heidegger says about dwelling, namely, that we seldom see them as activities on their own but rather just frames or stages for other activities to take place. However, I found that if we look into the activity of dwelling (in home, in apartment), it turns out that dwelling can be seen as a process that takes huge amounts of effort and investments of time and money (and designed products), thus taking large, often unacknowledged parts of what people call their everyday. I suspect similar sort of detailed reading of what is included in the activity that you’re interested in would produce interesting results.
Here’s link to my phd (free pdf) but like I said, there isn’t much about everydayness: https://shop.aalto.fi/p/253-dwelling-with-design/
all the best,
Heidi Paavilainen
University teacher, Dr.
Department of Design ARTS
Aalto University
On 4 Apr 2017, at 11.12, Levy, P.D. <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
Dear all,
I am trying to address the notion of ‘everyday’ and questioning the way it is or could be tackled by design.
I have read Georges Perec on infra-ordinary (enjoy http://artsites.ucsc.edu/faculty/Gustafson/FILM%20162.W10/readings/perec.approaches.pdf !) and George Orwell on common decency, which both are very inspiring. I studied Bourdieu and de Certeau, who address the notion of the everyday in different ways, once again inspiring but not that practical for design. I have read The Design of Everyday Things of Don Norman, and the Everyday Aesthetics of Yuriko Saito, certainly more satisfying for design but, to my perspective missing the attempt to clarify what is the ‘everyday’ (please let me know if I missed it!).
The everyday seems to be about in the closest, the less significant, the less noticeable facts. The everyday ‘is as much in the habitual events than in the forces that make them habitual and calmly liveable’ (Dewolf). However, it is also a space of creation, as the habitual may turn unexpectedly, and the resulting irregularity may be simultaneously a space of frustration and a space of creation. Here is why I am intrigued in it, and believe it should closely and unhesitatingly addressed by design research.
However, it seems to me the ‘everyday’ remains one of these things that everybody knows until it is time to describe it, a view that is not satisfying from a (design) research perspective.
I would be very glad if some of you could suggest directions, perspectives, or opinions to comprehend better the ‘everyday’ and the way it can be tackled by design (research). Or even better if some other people are addressing the same topic, and would like to share further on this topic...
Thank you in advance,
Best,
Pierre Lévy
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dr. LEVY Pierre
Assistant professor at TU/e
President of the European Kansei Group
Coordinator of the KEER steering committee
Eindhoven University of Technology
Department of Industrial Design
Designing Quality in Interaction
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