Title & Author:

Plastic : remaking our world / editors, Mateo Kries, Jochen Eisenbrand, Mea Hoffmann.

Publication:

Weil am Rhein, Germany : Vitra Design Museum, [2022]
©2022

Description:

256 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 27 cm

Notes:
Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name held at the Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, March 26-September 4, 2022; V&A Dundee, October 29, 2022-February 5, 2023; and maat -- Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, Spring 2023; further venues are planned.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
From natural to man-made / Mark Miodownik -- Love in the age of plastic / Susan Freinkel -- Homo Plasticus and the paradox of plastic / Nanjala Nyabola -- Images of plastic 1850 - today -- On the properties of parkesine, and its application to the arts and manufactures, 1865 / Alexander Parkes -- Plastic, 1957 / Roland Barthes -- Plastics on the Sargasso sea surface, 1972 / Edward J. Carpenter and K.L. Smith Jr. -- How plastic is a function of colonialism, 2018 / Max Liboiron -- A giant factory rises to make a product filling up the world : plastic, 2019 / Michael Corkery -- Objects -- Conversations : Peter Ghyczy -- Jane Atfield -- Rolf Fehlbaum, Manfred Diebold, and Thomas Schweikert -- Eric Klarenbeek and Maartje Dros -- Shellworks -- John McGeehan -- Dianna Cohen -- Roundtables : What about recycling? -- Plastic pollution : a tale of social injustice? -- A world post-plastic? -- Plastic data.

Summary:

Plastic has shaped our daily lives like no other material. Originally associated with convenience, progress, even revolution, today plastic seems to have lost its utopian appeal. Plastic is everywhere, yet most conspicuous as waste and as a key factor in the global environmental crisis. This book examines the success story of plastic in the twentieth century and at the same time presents the different discourses on how we should tackle the global plastic waste crisis and find solutions that lead us towards a plastic economy that is truly circular. Mark Miodownik, Susan Freinkel, and Nanjala Nyabola each contribute an essay that sheds light on the history of plastics from 1850 to today. A material-rich visual chronology illustrates how consumers' perception of plastics has changed over the decades. Brief descriptions of a selection of 40 objects from renowned collections examine the importance of plastics for material culture. Reprints of fundamental texts about the history of plastics from Alexander Parkes (1865) to Max Liboiron (2018) provide a context from the history of ideas. The book reflects the current discourse and state of research on plastic with numerous individual interviews and panel discussions that were held with designers, representatives from industry, researchers, and environmental activists. Underpinning these conversations are comprehensive data visualizations on plastic production and consumption, recycling.

ISBN:

3945852471 (English edition)
9783945852477 (English edition)
9783945852460 (German edition)
3945852463 (German edition)

Subject:

Plastics History Exhibitions.
Industrial design History 20th century Exhibitions.
Plastics industry and trade History Exhibitions.
Plastics History.
Design.
Matières plastiques Histoire.
Matières plastiques Histoire Expositions.
Design Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Matières plastiques Industrie Histoire Expositions.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Manufacturing.
Plastics industry and trade
Industrial design
Plastics

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
History
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Kries, Mateo, 1974- editor.
Eisenbrand, Jochen, editor.
Hoffmann, Mea, editor.
Vitra Design Museum, host institution.
V&A Dundee (Museum), host institution.
MAAT--Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia (Lisbon, Portugal), host institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315980
Call No.: 315980
Copy: 1
Status: Available