Benefits of Inconvenience

Everything around us has been designed to be convenient. But some are now approaching design with the opposite approach. Professor Kawakami Hiroshi is promoting what he calls the "benefits of inconvenience," and questioning our overly convenient lifestyles. So what does "inconvenient" design really mean? Explore this contrary approach and the new potential for design it reveals.
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