Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction 2. Sambo's Stones: Sustainability and Meaningful Objects 3. Following Will'o The Wisps and Chasing Ghosts: Re-Directing Design Through Practice-Based Research 4. After Taste: the Power and Prejudice of Product Appearance 5. Extant Objects: Seeing Through Design 6. Sermons in Stones: Argument and Artefact for Sustainability 7. Gentle Arrangements: Objects of Disciplined Empathy 8. The Chimera Reified: Design, Meaning and the Post-Consumerism Object 9. The Spirit of Design: Notes from the Shakuhachi Flute 10. Wrapped Attention: Designing Products for Evolving Permanence and Enduring Meaning 11. Temporal Objects: Design, Change and Sustainability 12. Meaning in the Mundane: Aesthetics, Technology and Spiritual Values 13. Wordless Questions: the Physical, the Virtual and the Meaningful 14. Epilogue