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Plastic: Remaking Our World

Remaking Our World
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Plastic: Remaking Our World is an insightful exploration of how plastic has transformed our modern world, impacting everything from design and architecture to daily life. By examining both its innovative potentials and environmental challenges, the book traces the complex legacy of plastic in shaping cultures and societies. It captures a balanced view of plastic's influence, inviting readers to reflect on sustainability and future possibilities.
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This book may appeal to you if you're fascinated by how plastic has transformed our world, particularly its impact on arts and culture. Exploring the material's innovation and design potential, it offers an intriguing perspective on how plastic shapes our modern lives and cultural landscapes.

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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 manage the waste the material produces and also find solutions that take into account its entire life cycle in the future.

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 50 objects examine the importance of plastics for material culture. Reprints of fundamental texts about the history of plastics—for example by Alexander Parkes and Roland Barthes—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, consumption, and recycling.

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Plastic: Remaking Our World explores the transformative role of plastic in modern society, examining its environmental impact and cultural significance. Reviews often highlight its engaging narrative and comprehensive research, noting how it challenges readers to reconsider the ubiquitous material's place in the world. The book is praised for its insightful examination of both the positive and negative facets of plastic usage in arts and culture.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783945852477

Publisher: Vitra Design Museum

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 April 2022

Country: Germany

Imprint: Vitra Design Museum

Illustration: 200 Illustrations

Contributors:

  • Edited by Mateo Kries
  • Edited by Jochen Eisenbrand
  • Edited by Mea Hoffmann
  • Assisted by Johanna Agerman Ross
  • Assisted by Corinna Gardner
  • Assisted by Charlotte Hale
  • Assisted by Lauren Bassam
  • Assisted by Anniina Koivu

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 195.0mm

Height: 265.0mm

Weight: 920g

Pages: 256

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