The age of plastic: ingenuity and responsibility : proceedings of the 2012 MCI Symposium /
"This volume brings together papers presented at "The Age of Plastic: Ingenuity + Responsibility," a Smithsonian symposium hosted by the Museum Conservation Institute on June 7 and 8, 2012. The event was conceived as a cross-disciplinary exploration of plastic, as technological materi...
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| Format: | Government Document Conference Proceeding Book |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press,
2017.
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| Series: | Smithsonian contributions to museum conservation ;
no. 7. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface / by Odile Madden, A. Elena Charola, and Robert J. Koestler
- Balancing ingenuity and responsibility in the age of plastic / Odile Madden
- Designing plasticity / Bill Moggridge
- "Astonish the world with... your new fiber mixter": producing, promoting, and forgetting man-made fibers / Mary M. Brooks
- Is it real? Imitation and originality in plastics / Robert Friedel
- Advanced materials used in space suite construction / Bill Ayrey and Linda Hewes
- Separating good plastic from bad plastic in conservation biology / Pierre Comizzoli
- Plastic and food culture / Cory Bernat
- Ford's driving role in the bio-based materials age / Debbie Mielewski, Ellen Lee, Angela Harris, and Cynthia Flanigan
- Conservation of plastics at the Smithsonian American Art Museum / Lucian H. Shockey Jr.
- Preserving plastic: challenges in the conservation of modern art objects / Thea van Oosten
- Engineered self-disassembly: a plastic that turns into gravel / Molly McGath and Odile Madden
- Midway: a message from the North Pacific Gyre / Jan Vozenilek
- Debris in the marine environment / Nancy Wallace and Dianna Parker
- Closing the loop with plastics / Mike Biddle
- Falling in and out of love: our troubled affair with plastic / Susan Freinkel.