Welcome to the Plastics Heritage Congress 2022

KARIM RASHID (Il Cairo, Egitto, 1960)Dante e Beatrice, 2010 | stampa sublimata su Stone / sublimation printing on Stone | piano intermedio / mezzanine

Naples | Italy

17 | 19 October 2022

Under the aegis of the Plastics Heritage European Association (PHEA), the Plart Museum in Naples (Italy) will host the sixth edition of the Plastics Heritage Congress (PHC) from the 17th to the 19th October 2022.

The PHC aims to encourage proposals for oral and poster presentation that contribute to a deeper understanding of the cultural significance of historic polymeric materials in their different representations and applications in society.

PHC School
“The conservation of industrial design”

Following the conference, the PHC School “The conservation of industrial design” – dedicated to students and young researchers – will touch the issues related to the protection of industrially manufactured products, largely produced thanks to plastic materials, which represent the most recent experience of human society.

At the end of the School, the Workshop: “Restoration and cataloguing of synthetic artefacts” will be held by the conservators of the Plart Museum.

Previous PHCs

2009

Köln

2009

2011

Bremen

2011

2014

Berlin

2014

2016

Berlin

2016

2019

Lisbon

2019

2022

Naples

2022

Historic polymeric materials (HIPOMS) comprise:

  • The large group of natural polymeric materials (amber, birch pitch, bitumen, natural rubber, gutta-percha, shaped protein materials, natural fibers, natural lacquers and varnishes, vegetable and animal glues, linoleum, shellac etc.).
  • Chemically modified biopolymers like cellulose nitrate, cellulose acetate and casein-formaldehyde masses.
  • Historic synthetic polymeric material like phenolics, urea and other early thermosets, thermoplastics, elastomers, fibers, lacquers, glues etc.