Materials Experience: Fundamentals of Materials and Design

There currently exists an abundance of materials selection advice for designers suited to solving technical product requirements. In contrast, a stark gap can be found in current literature that articulates the very real personal, social, cultural and economic connections between materials and the design of the material world. In Materials Experience: fundamentals of materials and design, thirty-four of the leading academicians and experts, alongside 8 professional designers, have come together for the first time to offer their expertise and insights on a number of topics common to materials and product design. The result is a very readable and varied panorama on the world of materials and product design as it currently stands.

Between chapters, you will find the results of interviews conducted with internationally known designers. These ‘designer perspectives’ will provide a ‘time out’ from the academic articles, with emphasis placed on fascinating insights, product examples and visuals

1. Introduction to Materials Experience Karana, Pedgley, Rognoli

Part I - SUSTAINABILITY 2. The "material" side of design for sustainability Carlo Vezzoli 3. Sustainable multipurpose materials for design Sascha Peters 4. Materials and social sustainability Prabhu Kandachar 5. A sustainable materials library to inspire alternative product ideas Jakki Dehn 6. The generation of new products through upcycling David Bramston, Anne Chick 7. Sustainability and aesthetic in materials for design Valentina Rognoli, Elvin Karana 8. Theory of design for sustainability and materials Tracy Bhamra Designer Interview Hella Jongerius Designer meeting Can Yalman

Part II - TECHNOLOGY 9. The next generation of materials and design Rob Thompson, Elaine Ng Yan Ling 10. Materials that can resonate with the external world Raymond Oliver 11. Biomimetic Materials Julian Vincent 12. Lightweight materials, lightweight design? Erik Tempelman 13. Nanomaterials in design Daniel Schodek 14. Novel structured PZT-polymer composites for sensing and energy harvesting applications Sybrand van der Zwaag Designer Interview Alberto Meda Designer Interview Other UK Designer

Part III - USER INTERACTION 15. Designing materials experience Paul Hekkert, Elvin Karana 16. Sensing materials: exploring the building blocks for experiential design Rick Schifferstein, Lisa Wastiels 17. Manipulating the material code Blaine Brownell 18. Every material has a story Aart van Bezooyen 19. The sensoaesthetics of materials: experiments in material-user interaction with regard to the sound and taste of materials Zoe Laughlin, Phil Howes 20. Meaningful stuff: toward longer lasting products Jonathan Chapman Designer Interview Paolo Ulian Designer Interview Piet Hein Eek

Part IV - SELECTION 21. Modelling materials technology and the designer’s perceptual span Eddie Norman 22. The interaction between functional and human-centred attributes when selecting materials for product design - Kevin Edwards 23. The immaterial of materials Jonathon Allen 24. From stiffness of iron-carbon diagram to weakness of sensoriality: the manifold designerly ways of developing engineering competencies in materials Marinella Levi, Luigi De Nardo 25. Materials selection towards tactile aesthetic appreciation Hengfeng Zuo, Tony Hope 26. Materials selection for product experience: new thinking, new tools Owain Pedgley 27. The concept-context approach to learning material properties in design (-related) education Marc de Vries Designer Interview Dick Powell Designer Interview Ece Yalım 28. Inspirational resources for materials 29. Conclusion