抄録
This paper is concerned with an analytical research on product aesthetic durability that is considered as the particular indication of the broad concept of product aesthetic sustainabiliry. As aesthetic boredom is the opposite of aesthetic durability, the research goes into a comparative fieldwork on product aesthetic boredom to inversely approach product aesthetic durability. Indeed, this paper prefaces the fieldwork whose major outcomes will appear in the two following papers. So, it generally reviews the whole story, backgrounds, approaches and plans of the research, and specially introduces the process and results of an exploratory inquiry on product replacement before the products breakdown as the first phase of the fieldwork in detail. The results of this exploratory inquiry firstly illustrate the role of boredom in product replacement and finally lead us to decide the object and subject age group for the next phases of the fieldwork.
