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these approaches treats design as something strange or exceptional (although it
can be exclusive), but, instead, see design as part and parcel of everyday life in
contemporary consumer society.
There is a small group of writers who have focused on studying the nature
of everyday life (Gardiner 2000b; Jokinen 2005; Highmore 2007, 2011; Naukkarinen
2011). The agreement is that everyday life as a research topic is difficult or
impossible to define because quite nearly everything can be approached from
the point of everydayness. Jari Luomanen discusses these difficulties in relation
to the domestication of technologies and media – which are often seen as
generating central aspects of the sense of everydayness – and concludes that
“everyday life is the arena where all activity is played out, the glue that holds
together the totality of the grand scale of things from the minutest to the
most specialised” (Luomanen 2010 17). In the broadest sense, my work, too, is
about studying everydayness and everyday life, since I have aimed to understand
and describe in a recognisable way the ways in which interviewees dwell
with designed products that typically already have long histories in the home.