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Sociétés urbaines et déchets : Éclairages internationaux
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ISSN: 16356187 ISBN: 9782869063822 2869063822 2869065442 Year: 2018 Publisher: Tours : Presses universitaires François-Rabelais,

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La gestion des déchets est au cœur des enjeux urbains contemporains. Longtemps domaine des administrations et d’entreprises spécialisées, elle est aujourd’hui devenue l’affaire de tous : trier, récupérer et recycler est aussi une question de citoyenneté. Cette attention portée aux déchets et à leur sort a mis en lumière des acteurs peu visibles qui jouent un rôle important dans leur récupération. Ceux-ci doivent trouver leur place en fonction des évolutions des systèmes de gestion institutionnels. Lorsque ces derniers sont défaillants, l’activité des acteurs invisibles de la récupération devient fondamentale pour libérer la ville de ses rebuts. Sociétés urbaines et déchets propose une mise en perspective de dix-huit études, au nord et au sud, où ces acteurs de la récupération sont à l’œuvre. Entre marginalisation et reconnaissance, entre exclusion et intégration, les récupérateurs sont les premiers maillons de systèmes en mutation. Avec des effets très différents selon les contextes locaux, les responsables politiques tentent de contrôler, réformer et moderniser les modalités de gestion des déchets en y associant des entreprises privées, locales ou multinationales. Cet ouvrage ambitionne d’éclairer les tensions et les articulations entre les acteurs qui participent à la gestion des déchets dans l’espace urbain : les dynamiques présentées ici témoignent des inégalités socio-territoriales et des processus de marginalisation dont la récupération des déchets, de plus en plus convoités, constitue une manifestation éloquente.


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Plastics recycling : products and processes.
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ISBN: 3446158820 1569900159 0195209346 9783446158825 Year: 1992 Publisher: Munich Hanser


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Wasted : when trash becomes treasure
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ISBN: 9493039382 9789493039384 Year: 2020 Publisher: Bruxelles: Ludion,

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We live in the age of the Anthropocene; human activity is the dominant force affecting the climate and man-made and organic materials are becoming irreversibly intertwined. As natural resources dwindle, designers are exploring the potential of increasingly plentiful waste streams to become the raw materials of the future. A new book celebrates 25 optimistic and enterprising designers, makers and manufacturers who use waste as their primary resource, offering a rare glimpse into the embryonic world they inhabit. Accompanying these profiles, five in-depth and thematic essays will explore the societal, cultural and environmental implications of their work.


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Charles Kaisin : design in motion : exposition : Grand-Hornu, Grand-Hornu images, 20.06.2009-27.09.2009 : catalogue
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ISBN: 9789058563125 905856312X Year: 2009 Publisher: Oostkamp Stichting Kunstboek

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The Belgian designer Charles Kaisin is particularly known for his K-Bench, an extendable bench for which he was awarded the Most Innovative Object prize at the Montreal Design Fair. As the young prodigy of Belgian design, he has been commissioned by several well-known brands because of his creativity in the domains of leather-working, accessory and furniture design. His work is particularly imbued with the concepts of 'extension' and 'recycling', like his Hairy Chair and Newspaper Extendable Bench, but he also ventures into other domains. He designed a lecture theatre for Grand Hornu Images, stackable seating/stowing elements for Vange, porcelain for Royal Boch and even chocolate delicacies for Pierre Marcolini Chocolatier.


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Aesthetics of sustainability : material experiments in product design
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ISBN: 9783038630623 3038630624 Year: 2022 Publisher: Zürich Triest Verlag für Architektur, Design und Typografie

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This volume summarizes the results of "The Aesthetics of Sustainability", a research project led by ECAL/Ecole cantonale d`art de Lausanne. It brought together master’s students of product design, established materials specialists, manufacturers and researchers with the aim of exploring and defining the aesthetic potential of a new generation of sustainable materials. The result of this research-through-design project is a series of fourteen case studies involving the development of materials made from textile waste, recycled paper, rubber granulate or vegetable fibers such as algae, rice husks, hemp, flax and wood. The resulting new materials can be shaped, pressed, woven or welded. A selection of these materials will be presented through experiments and prototypes of products. The aim is to offer future designers a range of practical tools and applied knowledge about the methods of analyzing and processing seminal materials, utilizing their advantageous qualities and developing functional, yet aesthetically intriguing objects.The materials further aim to provide proof that sustainable materials are a great market opportunity for manufacturers and consumers alike.


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Building from waste : recovered materials in architecture and construction
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ISBN: 9783038213758 9783038219323 3038213756 3038219320 9783038213796 3038213799 9783038215844 3038215848 Year: 2014 Publisher: Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser,

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"Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Recover!" ist heute die Leitlinie für nachhaltiges Bauen, die an die Stelle der Wegwerfmentalität der industriellen Moderne getreten ist. Das Autorenteam von der ETH Zürich und dem Future Cities Laboratory in Singapur gibt hier erstmals einen systematischen Überblick über die aus Abfall als erneuerbarem Rohstoff produzierten Baumaterialien und -elemente und über ihre Anwendung in Architektur, Innenraumgestaltung und Produktdesign. Die Bandbreite der dargestellten Baustoffe reicht von marktgängigen Produkten, wie Fassadepaneele aus Stroh oder selbstheilender Beton, bis hin zu Neuentwicklungen wie Holzbauelemente aus Zeitungspapier oder Isolierfasern aus Jeansdenim. Die Produkte werden auch in ihren Anwendung in gebauten oder prototypischen Projekten gezeigt. Das zugrunde liegende Konzept, Materialien in zusätzliche Lebenszyklen in der gebauten Umwelt zu überführen, geht über bloßes Recycling weit hinaus und umfasst fünf Gruppen von Produkten entsprechend ihrer Herstellungs- und Wirkungsweise: Verdichtung, physische Verwandlung, chemische Verwandlung, multifunktionale Gestaltung und biologisch-chemische Wachstumsprozesse. In einem weiteren Zugang werden die Produkte und Projekte nach ihren Einsatzmöglichkeiten im Tragwerk, als selbsttragende Elemente, für Wärmedämmung und Feuchteschutz sowie im Ausbau gegliedert und dargestellt. "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Recover" is the sustainable guideline that has replaced the "Take, Make, Waste" attitude of the industrial age. Based on their background at the ETH Zurich and the Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore, the authors provide both a conceptual and practical look into materials and products which use waste as a renewable resource. This book introduces an inventory of current projects and building elements, ranging from marketed products, among them façade panels made of straw and self-healing concrete, to advanced research and development like newspaper, wood or jeans denim used as isolating fibres. Going beyond the mere recycling aspect of reused materials, it looks into innovative concepts of how materials usually regarded as waste can be processed into new construction elements. The products are organized along the manufacturing processes: densified, reconfigured, transformed, designed and cultivated materials. A product directory presents all materials and projects in this book according to their functional uses in construction: load-bearing, self-supporting, insulating, waterproofing and finishing products.

Cradle to cradle : remaking the way we make things
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ISBN: 9780865475878 0865475873 Year: 2002 Publisher: New York : North Point Press,

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A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism"Reduce, reuse, recycle" urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. As William McDonough and Michael Braungart argue in their provocative, visionary book, however, this approach perpetuates a one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing model that dates to the Industrial Revolution and casts off as much as 90 percent of the materials it uses as waste, much of it toxic. Why not challenge the notion that human industry must inevitably damage the natural world, they ask.In fact, why not take nature itself as our model? A tree produces thousands of blossoms in order to create another tree, yet we do not consider its abundance wasteful but safe, beautiful, and highly effective; hence, "waste equals food" is the first principle the book sets forth. Products might be designed so that, after their useful life, they provide nourishment for something new-either as "biological nutrients" that safely re-enter the environment or as "technical nutrients" that circulate within closed-loop industrial cycles, without being "downcycled" into low-grade uses (as most "recyclables" now are).Elaborating their principles from experience (re)designing everything from carpeting to corporate campuses, the authors make an exciting and viable case for change.

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Nutritionary hygiene. Diet --- Applied arts. Arts and crafts --- Industrial economics --- milieutechnologie --- environmental engineering --- afvalpreventie --- environments [object groupings] --- industrieel beleid --- Business management --- natuurlijke grondstoffen --- recyclage --- afval --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- milieubeheer --- milieu --- Recycling (Waste, etc.) --- Industrial management --- Sustainable architecture. --- Recyclage (Déchets, etc.) --- Gestion d'entreprise --- Architecture durable --- Environmental aspects. --- Aspect de l'environnement --- Environmental aspects --- Ontwerpen --- 351.777 --- 504.062 --- 628 --- 614.7 --- 574 --- BPB0711 --- 504 --- Braungart, Michael --- McDonough Braungart design chemistry --- McDonough, William --- 72:574 --- 749.01 --- Natuurfenomenen als inspiratie voor ecologische problemen --- Ontwerptheorie ; duurzaam ; ecologisch design --- Ontwerptheorie ; over hergebruik ; recyclage --- Upcyclage --- 72.02 --- duurzaam design --- duurzaam ontwerpen --- duurzame architectuur --- ecologie --- hergebruik --- Duurzame ontwikkeling --- Ecologie --- Industrial Design --- Industrieel ontwerpen --- Levenscyclusanalyse (Levenscyclus-analyse) --- Milieu --- Ontwerpmethodologie --- 614.61 --- duurzame ontwikkeling --- milieubeleid --- milieuzorgsystemen --- 574 General ecology. Biocoenology. Hydrobiology. Biogeography --- General ecology. Biocoenology. Hydrobiology. Biogeography --- 628 Public health engineering. Water. Sanitation. Illuminating engineering --- Public health engineering. Water. Sanitation. Illuminating engineering --- 504.062 Protection, rational use, restoration of natural resources. Sustainable development --- Protection, rational use, restoration of natural resources. Sustainable development --- 351.777 Wetgeving, reglementering i.v.m. milieubeheer, milieuhygiene, verontreiniging. Milieurecht. Milieuhygienerecht--zie ook {?502/504}; {?613/614}; {628} --- Wetgeving, reglementering i.v.m. milieubeheer, milieuhygiene, verontreiniging. Milieurecht. Milieuhygienerecht--zie ook {?502/504}; {?613/614}; {628} --- Pollutie van lucht, water, grond--(openbare gezondheidszorg) --- Duurzaamheid --- Architectuur en ecologie --- Meubelkunst en design ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica --- milieubeheer, milieubeleid algemeen --- Recycling (Waste, etc.). --- Ontwerpen. --- Recyclage (Déchets, etc.) --- Conversion of waste products --- Recovery of natural resources --- Recovery of waste materials --- Resource recovery --- Waste recycling --- Waste reuse --- Conservation of natural resources --- Refuse and refuse disposal --- Energy conservation --- Salvage (Waste, etc.) --- Waste products --- circulaire economie --- 13 --- 3 --- Cradle to cradle --- Cultuurfilosofie --- Maatschappijwetenschappen --- Ecologie en bioverscheidenheid --- Développement durable --- Industrial management - Environmental aspects


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Marble past, monumental present : building with antiquities in the mediaeval Mediterranean
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ISBN: 9789004170834 9004170839 9786612400070 128240007X 904742414X 9789047424147 Year: 2009 Volume: 80 Publisher: Leiden Boston : Brill,

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A broad survey of the various structural and decorative uses of marble and antiquities throughout the Mediterranean during the Millennium following the Emperor Constantine. The heavy footprint of Roman civic and religious architecture helped provide attractive and luxurious building materials, re-used to construct diverse and often sophisticated monuments. The book argues that marble-rich sites and cities around this lake were linked at various times and in varying degrees by trade, pilgrimage, war and diplomacy, as well as by the imperatives of religion - Venice to Alexandria, Damascus to Córdoba. Aachen makes less sense without reference to Rome or Jerusalem; Damascus without Kairouan; Istanbul without Cairo. To accompany the illustrations in the text, the DVD at the back of the book contains over 5,000 images, together with discussions which extend various arguments in the printed book.


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Big-Game : design overview
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ISBN: 9789058562876 9058562875 Year: 2008 Publisher: Oostkamp: Stichting kunstboek,

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L'exposition Big-game Overview, au Grand-Hornu Images, présente trois nouvelles collections inédites d'objets. Le trio belgo-franco-helvétique s'est une fois de plus surpassé... Zoom sur des collections design hors du commun. Trois noms : Elric Petit, Augustin Scott de Martinville et Grégoire Jeanmonod et trois styles différents qu'ils se plaisent à assembler. Ce trio belgo-franco-helvétique - qui s'est fait connaître grâce à ses collections "Heritage in Progress", "New Rich", "Pack", "Sweet Pack" et "Plus is More" - se fonde sur l'hybridation et n'hésite pas à se référer à des objets existants pour leur donner une nouvelle vie. Il aime mêler le bourgeois au décontracté contemporain, l'ornemental à l'utilitaire ou encore le précieux au banal pour des objets design qui recouvrent une dimension poétique et amusante. Il travaille aussi avec des sociétés comme Ligne Roset, Vlaemsch, Habitat, Domestic ou encore la Galerie Kreo à Paris pour créer des pièces exclusives. Son actu ? Du 19 octobre au 22 février 2009, au Grand Hornu Images, il présente une sélection de travaux de Big-game, leur agence de design de produits, ainsi que leurs trois nouvelles collections : "Work", "Ready Made" et "Fold". Sans oublier la monographie qui lui est consacrée pour l'occasion. La collection "Work" est une déclinaison de luminaires nées d'expériences sur la forme, l'échelle et les matériaux : "des lampes reprenant l'idée d'une charpente posée sur le sol constituant un refuge de lecture", souligne Elric Petit. On les retrouve en bois ou en métal, de petite taille ou en version XL pouvant atteindre plus d'un mètre, mais d'une incroyable légèreté : "on aimait entretenir dans cet objet, le paradoxe entre un grand volume et une faible densité". La collection "Ready Made", quant à elle, comprend des objets détournés de leur fonction première. Au programme : les vitres plates des voitures Fiat Panda transformées en jolis miroirs, des vases en grès reprenant les formes archétypales de nos châteaux d'eau ou encore des enseignes lumineuses transformées en luminaire pour l'intérieur et auxquelles on a soustrait le message publicitaire. La collection "Fold", enfin, consiste en une série d'objets issus de l'exploitation des effets de matière de l'Alucobond®, comme la Fold Lamp, inspirée de l'origami japonais. "C'est un véritable travail d'expérimentation à partir d'une matière pour en tirer parti au maximum", conclut Elric Petit.


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Bio design : nature, science, creativity
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ISBN: 9780500294390 0500294399 Year: 2018 Publisher: London: Thames & Hudson,

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Bioluminescent algae, symbiotic aquariums, self-healing concrete, clavicle wind instruments and structures made from living trees - biology applied outside the lab has never been so intriguing, or so beautiful. 'Bio Design' examines the thrilling advances in the field, showcasing some seventy projects (concepts, prototypes and completed designs) that cover a range of fields - from architecture and industrial design to fashion and medicine. The revised and expanded edition features twelve new projects (replacing ten existing projects): Hy-Fi (by David Benjamin); One Central Park, Sydney (Jean Nouvel); Guard from Above (Sjoerd Hoogendoorn); Cell-laden Hydrogels for Biocatalysis (Alshakim Nelson); Zoa (Modern Meadow); Amino Labs (Julie Legault); Algae and Mycelium Projects (Eric Klarenbeek); Interwoven and Harvest (Diane Scherer); Concrete Honey (John Becker); Bistro In Vitro (Koert van Mensvoort); Circumventive Organs (Agi Haines); Quantworm Mine (Liv Bargman and Nina Cutler). It also includes a new how-to' section at the end (Tips for Collaboration/FAQs/Further Resources), as well as a fully revised introduction.

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