Description
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...
