- Title:
- Plastic. Remaking our World
- Object name(s):
- reference book; museums, collections, and exhibitions
- Brief description:
- Kries, M., Eisenbrand, J., Hoffmann, M., Agermann Ross, J., Gardner, C., Hale, C., Bassam, L., Koivu, A. (Eds.), 2022. Plastic: Remaking our World. Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein. This book is associated with an international exhibition of the same name. The book covers the following: Foreword - Sponsors' remarks - Introduction - Essays - Mark Miodownik, From natural to man-made, Susan Freinkel, Love in the Age of Plastic - Nanjala Nyabola, Homo Plasticus and the paradox of plastic - Images of Plastic 1850-today - Reprints - Alexander Parkes, On the properties of Parkesine and its application to the arts and manufactures, 1865 - Roland Barthes, Plastic, 1957 - Edward J. Carpenter and K.L. Smith Jr. - Plastics on the Sargasso Sea Surface, 1972 - Max Liboiron, How plastic is a function of colonialism, 2018 - Michael Corkery, A giant factory rises to make a product filling up the world: Plastic, 2019 - 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 - Contributors - Illustration Acknowledgments - Select biography - Index - Colophon
- Collection:
- Museum of Design in Plastics
- Associated concept:
- MoDiP reference library
- Material:
- paper
- Object name:
- reference book; museums, collections, and exhibitions
- Object number:
- MoDiPL : 0602
- Object production date:
- 2022
- Object production organisation:
- Vitra Design Museum
- Organisation's association:
- Publisher
- Object production person:
- Kries, Mateo
- Person's association:
- Editor
- Object production person:
- Eisenbrand, Jochen
- Person's association:
- Editor
- Object production person:
- Hoffmann, Mea
- Person's association:
- Editor
- Object production person:
- Agermann Ross, Johanna
- Person's association:
- Editor
- Object production place:
- Germany
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/461d700f-f7e8-3d6c-81b2-c584499e38cc
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/461d700f-f7e8-3d6c-81b2-c584499e38cc, Museum of Design in Plastics, CC BY
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