The Plastics Metamorphoses - the reality and the multiple approaches to a material (MoPRA)

Instituições participantes

FCiências.ID - Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências -Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia (Principal Contractor)

NOVA.ID.FCT - Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT -Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde - Tecnologias e Processos Limpos (Participant)

PIEP Associação - Pólo de Inovação em Engenharia de Polímeros (Collaborative)

University of Maryland  (Collaborative)

ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa - Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia

Descrição do projecto (em inglês)

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.