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Plastic : remaking our world

Title

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

Publication

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

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

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.

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History.
Exhibition catalogs.

Note

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.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN

3945852471
9783945852477
9783945852460
3945852463

LCCN

99991802546

OCLC

on1273680048
1273680048
SCSB-14345364

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Columbia University Libraries