Main entry:

Solanki, Seetal, author.

Title & Author:

Why materials matter : responsible design for a better world / Seetal Solanki ; [foreword, Liz Corbin].

Publication:

München ; London ; New York, NY : Prestel Publishing Ltd., [2018]
©2018

Description:

239 pages, 1 unnumbered page : color illustrations ; 31 cm

Notes:
Foreword / Liz Corbin -- Introduction / Seetal Solanki -- [I.] Everyday : Animal : Leather offcuts: Structural Skin / Jorge Penadés ; Cow stomach: Ventri / Billie van Katwijk ; Invisible leather: Apparition / Sruli Recht -- Aquatic : Mussel shell plaster: Beyond the Mainland / Phoebe Quare ; Fish leather / NYVIDD ; Shrimp glaze: Crangon Crangon / Jade Ruijzenaars -- Timber : Re-examined wood: Wood In Process / Envisions ; Willow trees: Willow Project / Students at Iceland Academy of the Arts -- Hydrophobic cork: SINNERLIG / Ilse Crawford (StudioIlse) -- Paper : Recycled newspaper: PaperBricks / WooJai Lee ; Coffee cup paper: Extract / G . F Smith -- Stone : Marble offcuts / Raw Material ; Rubble-Dash: OTOProjects / Assemble -- Ceramic : Geometric ceramics: Mad Maps / Cody Hoyt ; Automated ceramics: Alphabet Aerobics / Anton Alvarez -- Fibre : Flax: FLAX Chair / Christien Meindertsma -- Fabric : Reclaimed textiles: Solid Textile Board / Really -- Foodbank textiles: Breadline / Bethany Williams -- Dust : Sawdust: Smoked ceramics / Granby Workshop -- Food : Zero-Waste / Silo ; Sausage: The Sausage of the Future / Carolien Niebling -- Leftovers : Corn husks: Totomoxtle / Fernando Laposse ; Pine needles: Forest Wool / Tamara Orjola -- Shit : Cow dung: Merdacotta / The Shit Museum -- [II.] Sciences : DNA : Object NDA: Fundamentals / Dutch Invertuals ; Blood: Blood Related / Basse Stittgen -- Bacteria : Bacteria pigment: Rise and Fall of a Micropolis / Natsai Audrey Chieza ; Bacterial cellulose: Coconut Water Leather / Malai -- Insect : Propolis: From Insects / Studio Marlène Huissoud ; Synthetic spider silk: Spiber / Spiber Inc. -- Fungi : Fungus: The Growing Lab / Officina Corpuscoli -- Plant : Legume: Lupine Project / Elín Haroðardóttir and Inga Guðlaugsdóttir -- Seaweed : Seaweed colouring: Sea Me / Nienke Noogvliet -- Colour : Chroma plastics: Recolored / Jessica den Hartog ; Material colour: Tile Table / Hella Jongerius (Jongeriuslab) -- Hair : Hair rope: The New Age of Trichology / Sanne Visser -- Glass : Glass composite: Trending Terrazzo / bottle-up -- Milk : Milk plastic: Protein / Tessa Silva-Dawson -- Rubber : Ebonite: Fordlandia / Studio Swine ; Foam : Aluminium foam: Replica / Studio Furthermore -- Plastic : Extruded plastic: Plastic Baroque / James Shaw -- [III.] Expansive : Air : Fabricated air: Aera Fabrica / Studio Roos Meerman ; Air pollution: The Colour of Air / Tino Seubert ; Biosynthetic lichen: LichenAir / Davide Pisctielli -- Salt : Dead Sea salt: Salt / Eroz Nevi Pana -- Water : Calibrated water: Super-Synthetics / Maria Idicula Kurian ; Water capsules: Twenty / Mirjam de Bruijn -- Volcanic : Basalt: Crockery Black Basalt / Max Lamb ; Volcanic ash / Dzek and Formafantasma -- Ore : Electronic waste: Ore Streams / Formafantasma ; Radioactive ceramics: Rare Earthenware / Unknown Fields Division -- Energy : Microalgae / Algae Dome / SPACE10 -- Solar crystals: Cyanometer / Marjan van Aubel -- Light : Light paths: VOIE / Sabine Marcelis -- Digital : Digital Meets Physical / Wang and Söderström ; Visual effects: life.vfx / Audrey Large.

Summary:

What does it mean to live in a material world, and how do materials of the past and present hold the keys to our future? This book tackles these questions by focusing on various issues that human beings face and by discussing potential materials-related solutions. Through the lens of intriguing projects by designers, artists, makers, and scientists, it presents a colorful panoply of ideas, technologies, and creative efforts that focus on the earth's most basic elements, while also showing how these elements can be transformed into entirely new materials. It explores, for example, how ancient practices such as dyeing fabric and making glue may hold the secret to renewable and earth-friendly consumer products, as well as how recycling plastics can tackle food waste, and how a type of light metal being developed may one day make air travel less fuel-reliant. This book also investigates the potential of the digital experience, suggesting how this most ephemeral type of matter can be used to improve our world. Eye-catching and provocative, 'Why Materials Matter' serves as both a stimulating catalog of possibilities and a timely manifesto on how to consume, manufacture, and design for a better future.

ISBN:

9783791384719 (hardcover)
3791384716 (hardcover)

Subject:

Sustainable design Materials.
Industrial design Materials.
Materials Environmental aspects.
Écoconception Matériaux.
Design Matériaux.
Matériaux Aspect de l'environnement.
Art and Design.
Recycling (Waste, etc.)
Industrial design.
Materials Design.
Sustainability.
Sustainable design.
Sustainable engineering.
Design durable 21e siècle.
Design industriel Aspect environnemental Éco-produits 21e siècle.
Éco-produits 21e siècle.
Emballages Matériaux Innovations technologiques 21e siècle.
Emballages Aspect environnemental 21e siècle.

Added entries:

Corbin, Liz, writer of foreword.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 317266
Call No.: 317266
Status: Available