01946nmm a22002777a 4500 ES-BaAUN 20221228123153.0 221102| ||||go||d|||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 2575-5374 ES-BaAUN eng ES-BaAUN Free-wheeling through Nature: On the Perception of a Material UrbanNext, January 10, 2019. 1087 words. Designing Matter, Essay, expanding design practices, Meredith Miller, No Density, Possible Mediums, Technology and fabrication, Thom Moran Architecture&nature, Comfort, Cultural agitator, Designing Matter, Ecology, Essay, Material experimentation, Materials, New materials, Plastic, Pollution, Research This essay is part of "Possible Mediums" by Kelly Bair, Kristy Balliet, Adam Fure and Kyle Miller, published by Actar Publishers -- https://lccn.loc.gov/2018931568 While entirely unscientific, this litmus test elicits a knee-jerk reaction to a given material in excess and reveals our assumptions about its relative cultural value. For many of us, it’s a no-brainer: we don’t (or shouldn’t) like plastic. But plastics are amazing! They have enabled humanity to enter outer space and made our mattresses more comfortable, among other things. It’s clear that plastic can do almost anything other materials can do. This capacity inspired Roland Barthes to write, “…this amazement is a pleasurable one, since the scope of the transformations gives man the measure of his power and since the very itinerary of plastic gives him the euphoria of prestigious free-wheeling through Nature.” Architecture Waste Management Materials Pollution Miller, Meredith L. author. Moran, Thom author. https://urbannext.net/free-wheeling-through-nature/ Access to info ddc CF 0 1108 1108 0 0 ddc 0 0 9876543210 9876543210 2022-12-28 0 2022-12-28 2022-12-28 CF