{"id":852,"date":"2010-09-24T15:42:48","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T22:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlalviani.com\/?p=852"},"modified":"2017-07-10T15:58:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T22:58:27","slug":"not-created-equal-the-history-and-discernment-of-plastics-in-product-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlalviani.com\/?p=852","title":{"rendered":"Not Created Equal: The history and discernment of plastics in product design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a talk\u00c2\u00a0from\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/igniteportland.org\/about\/\">Ignite Portland<\/a> in 2010,\u00c2\u00a0in which I attempt to convince an audience of skeptics that polymers are actually valuable, worthwhile materials and (in many cases) ecologically superior to more &#8220;natural&#8221; alternatives. It includes a brief history of plastics in product design, a discussion of how what\u00c2\u00a0used to be a sought-after wonder \u00c2\u00a0material became a synonym for &#8220;cheap knockoff&#8221;, and a proposal for how we might shift our perceptions to value plastics in their own right &#8212; and discourage their disposability in the process.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"876\" height=\"493\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zCDocRl5lgw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Based roughly on a 2007 article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\">Core77 <\/a>(now available only through <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20071231192101\/http:\/\/www.core77.com\/reactor\/03.07_plastics.asp\">archive.org<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a talk\u00c2\u00a0from\u00c2\u00a0Ignite Portland in 2010,\u00c2\u00a0in which I attempt to convince an audience of skeptics that polymers are actually valuable, worthwhile materials and (in many cases) ecologically superior to more &#8220;natural&#8221; alternatives. It includes a brief history of plastics in product design, a discussion of how what\u00c2\u00a0used to be a sought-after wonder \u00c2\u00a0material became a synonym for &#8220;cheap knockoff&#8221;, and a proposal for how we might shift our perceptions to value plastics in their own right &#8212; and discourage their disposability in the process. Based roughly on a 2007 article on Core77 (now available only through archive.org).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlalviani.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlalviani.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlalviani.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlalviani.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlalviani.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlalviani.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1205,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlalviani.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions\/1205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlalviani.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlalviani.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlalviani.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlalviani.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}