Things in culture, culture in things

Introduction. Storing and storying the serendipity of objects / Patrick LavioletteSOFT OBJECTSThe natural order is decay: the home as an ephemeral art project / Stephen Harold RigginsPlacing objects first: filming transnationalism / Carlo A. CuberoBeware of dreams come true: valuing the intangible in the American Dream / Rowan R. MackaySTOIC STORIESThe travelling furniture: materialised experiences of living in the Jewish diaspora / Susanne Nylund SkogA hard matter: stones in Finnish-Karelian folk belief / Timo MuhonenAn embroidered royal gift as a political symbol and embodiment of design ideas in 1885 / Kirsti Salo-MattilaCONSUMING AND THE COLLECTABLEThe 'vintage community' in Bucharest: consumers and collectors / Maria CristacheThe visual form of newspapers as a guide for information consumption / Roosmarii KurvitsDesign for individuality: the Jordan Individual toothbrushes and interpassivity in material culture / Visa ImmonenCollecting the Nagas: John Henry Hutton, the administrator-collector in the Naga Hills / Meripeni NgullyWASTE AND TECHNOLOGIESWaste and alterity in 'speculative fiction': an assessment of the de- and re-evaluation of material objects in selected dystopian novels / Brigitte GlaserToilet cultures: boundaries, dirt and disgust / Remo GramignaThe social childhood of new ambivalent objects: emerging social representation of new biotechnologies / Maaris Raudsepp, Andu Rammer