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Green Composites, 2nd Edition
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Green Composites, 2nd Edition

by Caroline Baillie, Randika Jayasinghe
January 2017
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
220 pages
7h 20m
English
Woodhead Publishing
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Designing for composites

Traditional and future views

C. Rose,    Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, United States

Abstract

Previous modes of thinking about designing with materials, and how we regard those materials ethically within a bigger picture of material culture, may simply repeat themselves in current circumstances unless we “critique” these notions. This critique is vital because of the history, within postindustrial culture, of the accumulation of unintended consequences that negatively impact living systems. We can study carefully the evolved characteristics of natural materials particularly as they influence the forms and processes we see produced in living systems. We learn to see these forms as self-illustrating phenomena ...

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ISBN: 9780081008003