"Rejecting old assumptions and revitalizing the principles of sustainable production, Radical Matter reimagines material and process to provide the manifesto for a revolution in material innovation. This book celebrates the designer and maker as an agent for radical change, disrupting the way we design, make and consume through material innovation. Framed by eight 'Big Ideas,' with over sixty fully illustrated case studies featuring testimonies from global industry experts, this is an essential introduction to the cutting edge of design for a sustainable future"-- Back cover

• Foreword : Design is dead: long live design / Carole Collet
• Introduction : Rethinking materials / Kate Franklin and Caroline Till
• Today's waste, tomorrow's raw materials : Can we tap into industrial and domestic waste streams as tomorrow's source of raw materials?
• Natural assets : Is it possible to rethink the harvesting and production of natural resources to find new applications that minimize waste?
• Shit, hair, dust : From disgust to desire, how can design reimagine human and animal detritus as a sustainable raw material?
• Material connections : Can materials and making connect communities and promote the exchange of knowledge and ideas?
• Co-creation : Could digital fabrication enable us to design and manufacture on demand with minimal waste?
• Designed to disappear : How can disposable products and materials be redesigned to disappear and leave no trace?
• Living materials : What if living materials could be grown in labs and become the factories of the future?
• Future mining : What materials will we mine in the future as a result of human impact on the planet?