The significance of product longevity / Tim Cooper -- Re-evaluating obsolescence and planning for it / Brian Burns -- Subject/object relationships and emotionally durable design / Jonathan Chapman -- Defying obsolescence / Miles Park -- Understanding replacement behaviour and exploring design solutions / Nicole van Nes -- Adjusting our metabolism: slowness and nourishing rituals of delay in anticipation of a post-consumer age / Alistair Fuad-Luke -- Durability, function and performance / Walter Stahel -- Durability and the law / Cowan Ervine -- The law on guarantees and repair work / Christian Twigg-Flesner -- Policies on longevity / Tim Cooper -- Rethinking marketing / Ken Peattie -- Marketing durability / Tim Cooper and Kirsty Christer -- Can durability provide a strong marketing platform? / Dorothy Mackenzie, Tim Cooper and Kenisha Garnett -- Consumer influences on product life-spans / Siân Evans and Tim Cooper -- Product life cycle management through IT / Matthew Simon -- There are times and places: systems and practices in the domestic processing and reuse of packaging / Janet Shipton and Tom Fisher -- Extending product life-spans: household furniture and appliance reuse in the UK / Anthony Curran