Watch where that went - we may need it later : reflections on material flows in and through home

Discussion: The chapters exploring material flows through domestic spaces shed a fascinating light on the complexities, opportunities and contradictions manifest in practices and systems of household formation and consumption. They highlight areas of convergence, mismatch, overlap and lag between design, behaviour, norms and economics in the forms and products involved in housing spaces and systems. Moreover the chapters reveal the intricate interactions and blurring between products, identity, lifestyle, behaviour and technology. These chapters reveal the diverse ways in which people enact social, economic and environmental imperatives within existing infrastructures, which are in turn products of and factors in myriad social, economic and environmental imperatives.