How Materials Matter : : Design, Innovation and Materiality in the Pacific / / Graeme Were.
How does design and innovation shape people’s lives in the Pacific? Focusing on plant materials from the region, How Materials Matter reveals ways in which a variety of people – from craftswomen and scientists to architects and politicians – work with materials to transform worlds. Recognizing the f...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (212 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Materials and Design
- PART I Materials under the Microscope
- 1 On the Materials of Mats: Thinking through Design in a Melanesian Society
- 2 Materials on the Move: Exploring the Shifting Material Identities of Barkcloth
- 3 What’s in a Plant Leaf? A Case Study of Materials Innovation in New Zealand
- PART II Materials, Design, Transformation
- 4 Of Canoes and Troughs: Materials Computation and the Nature of Social Relations
- 5 Enclosures and Disclosures: Materials and Difference
- PART III Material Futures
- 6 Returning Cultural Knowledge in a Digital Design Context: Collecting Legacies and Archival Futures
- 7 Material Histories and the Changing Nature of Museum Collections
- Conclusion: Towards a New Understanding of Materiality
- References
- Index