What is unconsumption?
Consumption is a word used to describe acts of acquisition – generally, the acquisition of things, in exchange for money. Unconsumption is a word used to describe everything that happens after an act of acquisition. For more, see the unconsumption blog.
Unconsumption includes making things last, finding new uses for them, or, when they're used up, getting rid of them in the most responsible way. Lots and lots of thought and energy and money goes into creating “meanings” for consumption, but what about these unconsumption ideas? Can they be done in a meaningful way?
In the short term, the purpose of this wiki is to build a resource that helps you find the best, most practical, most satisfying answers to that question.
We hope you will join in and help us find those answers. And to help guide the wiki to become more and more useful, and define all the things that unconsumption can mean.
“Getting new stuff can feel really good. Most everybody knows that. Most everybody also knows ... that utility can fade, pleasure can be fleeting and the whole thought-that-counts thing is especially ephemeral. Apart from the usual solution to this problem (more new stuff!), it’s worth pondering whether getting rid of stuff can ever feel as good as getting it.” Source.
Unconsumption resources for:
FIXING IT, MAKING IT LAST
REPURPOSING IT
GETTING RID OF IT
RESOURCES & INSPIRATION
Comments (1)
urban woodswalker said
at 9:08 pm on Oct 31, 2009
Hey, thanks for using my photo here of the plastic bags coat! However, please ask next time before taking it off Flickr?
Thank you.
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