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Vitra Design Museum

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Paperback, 7.75 x 10.5 in. / 254 pgs / 250 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2022 p. 150   

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ISBN 9783945852477 TRADE
List Price: $85.00 CAD $114.00

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EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

Weil am Rhein, Germany
Vitra Design Museum, 03/26/22–09/04/22

Dundee, Scotland
Victoria & Albert Dundee, 10/29/22–02/05/22

Lisbon, Portugal
MAAT - Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, 03/23–09/23

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VITRA DESIGN MUSEUM

Plastic: Remaking Our World

Edited by Mateo Kries, Jochen Eisenbrand, Mea Hoffman. Coedited by Johanna Agerman Ross, Corinna Gardner, Charlotte Hale, Lauren Bassam, Anniina Koivu. Text by Susan Freinkel, Mark Miodownik, Nanjala Nyabola. Interviews with Jane Atfield, Dianna Cohen, Dave Hakkens, John McGeehan, Klarenbeek & Dros, The Shellworks, Peter Ghyczy.

Plastic: Remaking Our World

The complex life of plastic, from global success story to ecological conundrum and beyond

Plastic has shaped our daily lives like no other material. Originally associated with convenience, progress and even revolution, today plastic seems to have lost its utopian appeal. Plastic is everywhere, yet most conspicuous as waste and as a key factor in the global environmental crisis.
This book examines the success story of plastic in the 20th century and at the same time presents the different discourses on how we should manage the waste the material produces and also find solutions that take into account its entire life cycle in the future. Mark Miodownik, Susan Freinkel and Nanjala Nyabola each contribute an essay that sheds light on the history of plastics from 1850 to today. A material-rich visual chronology illustrates how consumers’ perception of plastics has changed over the decades; brief descriptions of a selection of 50 objects examine the importance of plastics for material culture; and reprints of fundamental texts about the history of plastics—for example, by Alexander Parkes and Roland Barthes—provide a context from the history of ideas.
The book juxtaposes the current discourse and state of research on plastic with numerous individual interviews and panel discussions that were held with designers, representatives from industry, researchers and environmental activists. Underpinning these conversations are comprehensive data visualizations on plastic production, consumption and the spread of plastic around the world.


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CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/12/2022

1014 presents 'Plastic. Remaking Our World' with Jochen Eisenbrand

1014 presents 'Plastic. Remaking Our World' with Jochen Eisenbrand

Thursday, May 12 from 6:30–8 PM, as part of NYCxDESIGN, New York's 1014 cultural space presents Jochen Eisenbrand, Chief Curator at the Vitra Design Museum, speaking on the current exhibition and forthcoming catalog, Plastic: Remaking Our World. After an introduction of the exhibition topics, Eisenbrand will discuss the rise and fall of a material that has been elemental to the design world and become a symbol of modernity as well as its shortcomings. Featuring Lola Ben-Alon, Assistant Professor at Columbia GSAPP, and designer Charlotte McCurdy. Please register here!
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