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Provocative plastics : their value in design and material culture /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Lambert, Susan (Museum director) (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
Subjects:
Design > Social aspects.
Plastics > Design.
Material culture.
Plastics as art material.
Design and history.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Kigge Hvid, (INDEX: Design to Improve Life).- Introduction
  • Professor Susan Lambert (Museum of Design in Plastics, Arts University Bournemouth).- Part 1: Plastics in professional practice.- 1. The material consciousness of plastics
  • Russell Gagg (Arts University Bournemouth).- 2. Deplastification
  • Sebastian Conran (Sebastian Conran Associates).- 3. Feminist innovation and rebellion through plastics
  • Flora McLean (Royal College of Art; House of Flora).- 4. Imperfect aesthetic
  • Roderick Walden, Dr Cathy Lockhart, Stefan Lie & Berto Pandolfo (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia).- 5. The value of plastics as a sculptural medium
  • Dr Richard Hooper (Liverpool Hope University).- 6. Witches Knickers and carrier bag theories: thinking through plastics
  • Joanne Lee (Sheffield Hallam University).- 7. Start thinking in circles
  • Dr Eric Bischof (Covestro, formerly Bayer, Germany).- Part II: Public perception of plastics.- 8. Plastic fantastic lovers
  • plastics and popular culture... 1945 to 2015
  • Mark Suggitt (formerly Derwent Mills World Heritage Site).- 9. The canonisation of plastics: plastics and aspects of value in the I.L.E.A. / Camberwell Collection
  • Dr Maria Georgaki (University of the Arts London).- 10. Ambiguous artificiality
  • the presentation and the perception of viscose fibres and fabrics in Norway in the 1930s
  • Tone Rasch (Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology, Oslo, Norway).- 11. The Polemic polarising of plastics: plastic designs that can disgust and delight
  • Dr Kirsten Hardie (Arts University Bournemouth).- 12. Materiality and perception: plastics as precious materials
  • Dr Gerson Lessa (Federal University of Rio de Janiero, Brazil).- 13. Plastics in collections: changing fortunes, perceptions and misconceptions
  • Deborah Cane (Tate), Rachel Cockett (Birmingham Museums Trust), Dr Brenda Keneghan (Victoria and Albert Museum).- 14. Plastics and social responsibility
  • Dr Susan Mossman (Science Museum, London).