Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World

Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made WorldWe were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. Hunter S. Thompsons opening gambit, in his classic Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, has long been my favourite. However, much to my surprise, for pure shock value the first sentence of this book, by Mark Miodownik, professor of materials and society at UCL, runs it a close second: As I stood on a train bleeding from what would later be classified as a 13

and dreamers for nearly a century

and squatting

and important

Betsky travels the world looking for the best examples

and surrounding

these stories reveal how a new generation of designers is shaping a circular future: one built on creativity

Four decades ago

Homesick also offers a measure of optimism: showing how London could once again become a place of permanence

In Material World

and thought in what we wear

Edited by Joe Gibbs

of lives sadly lost