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background. Their ability to facilitate dwelling is critical, but their design goes
mostly unnoticed. Often, though, designers want the products to be noticed,
even (or precisely) in daily use, and they hope that the product brings noticeable
pleasure to everyday living – that it would not lose its magic, even after
years of use and display. And, indeed, design can elicit considerable pleasure,
but also displeasure and annoyance, long after its arrival into home. This suggests
that the domestication framework should be modified to better cover a
type of domestication that leaves products “untamed”, so as to better accommodate
the design that continues to be noticed, in good and in bad ways.
To summarise, the assorted set of stuff that people keep in the apartment
does not mean that all those products are integral to the moral economy of the
household – that is, to the identity and sense of self of the household. Some
products stored in the apartment play an integral role in the workings of the
moral economy, some get to that stage only occasionally, while some have no
role precisely because they are tolerated rather than lived with and the household
has other things to invest its time and money to, rather than worrying
about changing the situation; therefore, the valueless, non-integral product
receives no more attention than the occasional annoyance when someone is
forced to use it – or stumbles on it.