Foreword - Kigge Hvid, (INDEX: Design to Improve Life)
Introduction – Professor Susan Lambert (Museum of Design in Plastics, Arts University Bournemouth)
Part 1: Plastics in professional practice
1. The material consciousness of plastics - Russell Gagg (Arts University Bournemouth)
2. Deplastification - Sebastian Conran (Sebastian Conran Associates)
3. Feminist innovation and rebellion through plastics - Flora McLean (Royal College of Art; House of Flora)
4. Imperfect aesthetic - Roderick Walden, Dr Cathy Lockhart, Stefan Lie & Berto Pandolfo (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
5. The value of plastics as a sculptural medium – Dr Richard Hooper (Liverpool Hope University)
6. Witches Knickers and carrier bag theories: thinking through plastics - Joanne Lee (Sheffield Hallam University)
7. Start thinking in circles – Dr Eric Bischof (Covestro, formerly Bayer, Germany)
Part II: Public perception of plastics
8. Plastic fantastic lovers – plastics and popular culture… 1945 to 2015 - Mark Suggitt (formerly Derwent Mills World Heritage Site)
9. The canonisation of plastics: plastics and aspects of value in the I.L.E.A. / Camberwell Collection – Dr Maria Georgaki (University of the Arts London)
10. Ambiguous artificiality – the presentation and the perception of viscose fibres and fabrics in Norway in the 1930s - Tone Rasch (Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology, Oslo, Norway)
11. The Polemic polarising of plastics: plastic designs that can disgust and delight - Dr Kirsten Hardie (Arts University Bournemouth)
12. Materiality and perception: plastics as precious materials – Dr Gerson Lessa (Federal University of Rio de Janiero, Brazil)
13. Plastics in collections: changing fortunes, perceptions and misconceptions - Deborah Cane (Tate), Rachel Cockett (Birmingham Museums Trust), Dr Brenda Keneghan (Victoria and Albert Museum)
14. Plastics and social responsibility – Dr Susan Mossman (Science Museum, London).