Laura, 30-something, artist & filmaker

Findings

Patience, Openness & Faith in Things

“I really have faith that things will just turn up when you need them...”

“I just carry this list around in my mind of things we are looking for… it’s like a sort of mental list... My experience has been that when I need something, if I know I need them, I’ll find it.”

“If I need something, I don’t just go out and buy it. I just think about

how to live without it for a while and then it comes, it finds a way to

materialize.” (Kristy, 20s, community organizer)

“I’m patient. … You keep your eyes out. You have your list in the back of

your mind as to what you want or what you need.”

(Bob, 70’s, retired toolmaker)

“I don’t mind being patient and waiting for something to come around. It

usually does. ... I have lists of things [to acquire]” (John, 30’s, sound engineer)

Findings

Patience, Openness & Faith in things | Living without and making lists

{Departures from Firsthand Acquisition}

Care of Things, Self & Others

Findings

Care for things

“This is the chair I was talking about that I might not be able to save. … [The “damage”] may be too significant to—I might not be able to save it.”

Findings

Care for things

Tanya, 30-something, skilled amateur interior designer and remodeler

Findings

Care for things

Findings

Care for things

Michael, 30-something, amateur flea market seller

Findings

Care for things

“I hate to throw away something I think has a use. I mean if it definitely has a good use or function still, I don’t want to throw it away. ... I wanna get it in the hands of someone who could use ‘em”

ImplicationsDesigning from communities of reacquisition

Implications: Designing from communities of re-acquisition

Recoding

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Implications: Designing from communities of re-acquisition

Recoding the reacquired & Reacquiring

Recoding trash...

Implications: Designing from communities of re-acquisition

Recoding the reacquired & Reacquiring

Implications: Designing from communities of re-acquisition

Making space for reacquisition at the center

Implications: Designing from communities of re-acquisition

Making space for reacquisition at the center

Virtual spaces may already be doing this...

Implications: Designing from communities of re-acquisition

Making space for reacquisition at the center

Bicycle Coop Electronics Coop

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Implications: Designing from communities of re-acquisition

Making space for reacquisition at the center

Hackerspaces

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Mobile Phone Repair

Implications: Designing from communities of re-acquisition

Making space for reacquisition at the center

Electronics Coop

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Implications: Designing from communities of re-acquisition

Recirculation & Shared use

Usership, rather than ownership

Reacquisition

Dispossession Possession

Implications: Designing from communities of re-acquisition

Recirculation & Shared use

Implications: Designing from communities of re-acquisition

Understanding and learning from practices and values at the margins

Immediacy & Disposability

Patient acquisition

Care for things