The Plastics Metamorphoses - the reality and the multiple approaches to a material (MoPRA)
Team
Maria Elvira Callapez (PI)
Robert Friedel (Co-PI)
Alda Mourão
Artur Neves
Breno Borges
Bruno Alexandre Pereira da Silva
Deolinda Adão
Greg Curtzwiler
Jorge ML.M. da Silva
Keith Vorst
Luís Miguel Carolino
Maria João Melo
Maria da Conceição Paiva
Maria da Luz Sampaio
Mariana Galera Soler
Paula Mota Santos
Susana França de Sá
Period
2023-2025
Funding
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (2022.05086.PTDC)
https://doi.org/10.54499/2022.05086.PTDC
Institutions
Principal contractor
FCiências.ID - Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências - Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia
Participating institutions
NOVA.ID.FCT - Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT- Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde - Tecnologias e Processos Limpos
Collaborative institutions
PIEP Associação - Pólo de Inovação em Engenharia de Polímeros
University of Maryland
ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa - Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia
Project description
This is an interdisciplinary project that integrates several scientific areas from history, sociology, history of science and technology, exact sciences, conservation and restoration, museology, materials science, anthropology, and environmental ethics.
Historical studies, with their social, cultural, and environmental dimensions, are at the heart of the effort and are most prominently represented in the expertise of the applicants.
The central disciplinary strength of this application lies in its integration of historical approaches with materials science and environmental studies.
Plastics in its changing historical dimensions offers an ideal platform to show the potential strength of this integration.