Plastic. Remaking our World

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

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