Provocative plastics : their value in design and material culture /: their value in design and material culture. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Susan Lambert.
• Editors: (Museum director), Lambert, Susan
• 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).
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 745.572; Design -- Social aspects; Plastics -- Design; Material culture; Plastics as art material; Design and history
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030558826
• Related ISBNs: 9783030558819
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