Why materials matter : responsible design for a better world / Seetal Solanki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Solanki, Seetal, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable design.

Industrial design.

Sustainable engineering.

Materials--Environmental aspects.

Materials.

Materials--Design.

Recycling (Waste, etc.).

Sustainability.

Physical Description:

238 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Prestel Publishing, [2018]

Summary:

"This visually stunning investigation of natural and man-made materials will change the way you look at the world around you, while offering hope for the future of our planet."

"What does it mean to live in a material world, and how do materials of the past and present hold the keys to our future? This book tackles these questions by focusing on various issues that human beings face and by discussing potential materials-related solutions. Through the lens of intriguing projects by designers, artists, makers, and scientists, it presents a colorful panoply of ideas, technologies, and creative efforts that focus on the earth's most basic elements, while also showing how these elements can be transformed into entirely new materials. It explores, for example, how ancient practices such as dyeing fabric and making glue may hold the secret to renewable and earth-friendly consumer products, as well as how recycling plastics can tackle food waste, and how a type of light metal being developed may one day make air travel less fuel-reliant. This book also investigates the potential of the digital experience, suggesting how this most ephemeral type of matter can be used to improve our world. Eye-catching and provocative, Why Materials Matter serves as both a stimulating catalog of possibilities and a timely manifesto on how to consume, manufacture, and design for a better future."

Contents:

Foreword / Liz Corbin

Introduction / Seetal Solanki

[I.] Everyday : Animal : Leather offcuts: Structural Skin / Jorge Penadés ; Cow stomach: Ventri / Billie van Katwijk ; Invisible leather: Apparition / Sruli Recht

Aquatic : Mussel shell plaster: Beyond the Mainland / Phoebe Quare ; Fish leather / NYVIDD ; Shrimp glaze: Crangon Crangon / Jade Ruijzenaars

Timber : Re-examined wood: Wood In Process / Envisions ; Willow trees: Willow Project / Students at Iceland Academy of the Arts

Hydrophobic cork: SINNERLIG / Ilse Crawford (StudioIlse)

Paper : Recycled newspaper: PaperBricks / WooJai Lee ; Coffee cup paper: Extract / G . F Smith

Stone : Marble offcuts / Raw Material ; Rubble-Dash: OTOProjects / Assemble

Ceramic : Geometric ceramics: Mad Maps / Cody Hoyt ; Automated ceramics: Alphabet Aerobics / Anton Alvarez

Fibre : Flax: FLAX Chair / Christien Meindertsma

Fabric : Reclaimed textiles: Solid Textile Board / Really

Foodbank textiles: Breadline / Bethany Williams

Dust : Sawdust: Smoked ceramics / Granby Workshop

Food : Zero-Waste / Silo ; Sausage: The Sausage of the Future / Carolien Niebling

Leftovers : Corn husks: Totomoxtle / Fernando Laposse ; Pine needles: Forest Wool / Tamara Orjola

Shit : Cow dung: Merdacotta / The Shit Museum

[II.] Sciences : DNA : Object NDA: Fundamentals / Dutch Invertuals ; Blood: Blood Related / Basse Stittgen

Bacteria : Bacteria pigment: Rise and Fall of a Micropolis / Natsai Audrey Chieza ; Bacterial cellulose: Coconut Water Leather / Malai

Insect : Propolis: From Insects / Studio Marlène Huissoud ; Synthetic spider silk: Spiber / Spiber Inc.

Fungi : Fungus: The Growing Lab / Officina Corpuscoli

Plant : Legume: Lupine Project / Elín Haroðardóttir and Inga Guðlaugsdóttir

Seaweed : Seaweed colouring: Sea Me / Nienke Noogvliet

Colour : Chroma plastics: Recolored / Jessica den Hartog ; Material colour: Tile Table / Hella Jongerius (Jongeriuslab)

Hair : Hair rope: The New Age of Trichology / Sanne Visser

Glass : Glass composite: Trending Terrazzo / bottle-up

Milk : Milk plastic: Protein / Tessa Silva-Dawson

Rubber : Ebonite: Fordlandia / Studio Swine ; Foam : Aluminium foam: Replica / Studio Furthermore

Plastic : Extruded plastic: Plastic Baroque / James Shaw

[III.] Expansive : Air : Fabricated air: Aera Fabrica / Studio Roos Meerman ; Air pollution: The Colour of Air / Tino Seubert ; Biosynthetic lichen: LichenAir / Davide Pisctielli

Salt : Dead Sea salt: Salt / Eroz Nevi Pana

Water : Calibrated water: Super-Synthetics / Maria Idicula Kurian ; Water capsules: Twenty / Mirjam de Bruijn

Volcanic : Basalt: Crockery Black Basalt / Max Lamb ; Volcanic ash / Dzek and Formafantasma

Ore : Electronic waste: Ore Streams / Formafantasma ; Radioactive ceramics: Rare Earthenware / Unknown Fields Division

Energy : Microalgae / Algae Dome / SPACE10

Solar crystals: Cyanometer / Marjan van Aubel

Light : Light paths: VOIE / Sabine Marcelis

Digital : Digital Meets Physical / Wang and Söderström ; Visual effects: life.vfx / Audrey Large.

ISBN:

3791384716

9783791384719

OCLC:

1017577295