TY  - BOOK
AU  - Were,Graeme
TI  - How Materials Matter: Design, Innovation and Materiality in the Pacific 
SN  - 9781789202014
U1  - 306.4/60995 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Design
KW  - Oceania
KW  - Handicraft
KW  - Material culture
KW  - Pacific Islanders
KW  - Plant products
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Anthropology of Design and Material Culture
KW  - Ethnographic Studies of Plant Materials
KW  - Making
KW  - New Materialities
KW  - Pacific Rim
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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 fragile and ephemeral nature of plant fibres, this work delves into how the biophysical properties of certain leaves and their aesthetic appearance are utilized to communicate information and manage different forms of relations. It breaks new ground by situating plant materials at the centre of innovation in a region
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789202021?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781789202021
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781789202021/original
ER  -