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ClearThe Art of (Up)Recycling: How Plastic Debris Has Become a Matter of Art?
This art and culture paper examines how contemporary artists have used plastic waste as a medium, exploring how art can communicate environmental concerns about plastic pollution to the public. The work documents artistic responses to the global plastic crisis. While not a scientific study, art-based approaches are relevant to raising public awareness about microplastic contamination and motivating behavioral change.
Plastic waste micro-management towards innovative sustainable living in inspiring art practice
This paper is not directly about microplastic science; it describes a participatory art project in a Malaysian village where artists and communities collaborated to manage plastic waste and raise awareness about plastic pollution through sustainable art practices.
Plastic pollution and environmental education through artwork
This study explores how upcycling discarded plastics into artwork can serve as a tool for environmental education about plastic pollution. Researchers describe an art installation collaboration that brought together the art world and environmental advocacy to raise public awareness. The study suggests that creative approaches to reusing plastic waste can effectively engage communities in understanding the scale and consequences of plastic pollution.
Vanishing Point Unseen : an art/science collaboration and exhibition on the impact of microplastics in our oceans
This paper describes Vanishing Point, an art-science collaboration and exhibition raising public awareness of ocean plastic pollution and its ecological and social impacts. The project illustrates how scientific findings about microplastics can be communicated to broader audiences through visual art and storytelling.
“The Rejected Remains as Fact”
This paper explores how contemporary artists are responding to the pervasive presence of microplastics and nanoplastics through visual and performative works. Researchers examine how art projects have shifted from environmental alarm toward speculative scenarios of plastic-human coexistence, drawing on the concept of the plastisphere. The study suggests that artistic investigations can reframe our understanding of plastic pollution by exploring cultural and material dimensions beyond purely scientific perspectives.
Revealing the Invisible: Marine Plastic Waste and its Effects in Science-Inspired Visual Art
This paper explores how science-inspired visual art can make invisible marine plastic pollution perceptible to the public by translating scientific data into aesthetic experiences. The authors argue that artistic visualizations close the perceived distance between everyday life and ocean plastic harm, fostering stronger public engagement with pollution issues.
The Persistence of Plastic: Environmental Public Art and Micro-Plastic Pollution
This study explored whether environmental public art about plastic pollution can motivate behavioral change in Australian audiences. Survey responses from art exhibit visitors showed increased concern and pro-environmental intentions, suggesting that arts-based communication strategies can complement scientific messaging in addressing microplastic contamination.
Understanding microplastics, and visual art as a method of communication: scientific poster versus painting
This study found that over 30% of people preferred a painting over a scientific poster as a way to understand information about microplastics and human health. Visual art may be an effective tool for raising public awareness about the risks of microplastic pollution.
Traces from the Anthropocene: Working with Soil
This artistic research project uses soil as a material to explore and communicate the human imprint on the environment, including contamination by microplastics. Combining environmental science with ceramic art practice, it explores how creative work can raise awareness of soil pollution.
Microplastics Found in Human Embryo
This brief describes an artwork titled 'Microplastics Found in Human Embryo' created to communicate the environmental threat posed by microplastic pollution. The piece uses art to make the invisible visible, helping audiences emotionally engage with scientific findings about microplastic contamination of the human body.
Towards a post-humanist design for educational inclusion
This participatory action research project worked with residents of a litter-polluted Belgian coastline to develop arts-based educational approaches that foster greater awareness of how plastic pollution damages shared living environments for humans and wildlife alike. While focused on pedagogy, the study underscores how community engagement and environmental literacy are important complements to scientific research on plastic pollution.
Woven into the air– Dance as a practice towards ecologically and socially just communities
This arts education research paper examines how dance-based pedagogical methods can foster ecological awareness and justice in diverse student groups. It is a creative arts education study with no direct connection to microplastic research.
Embodied eco-embroidery
This paper is not about microplastics; it reports on a transdisciplinary arts-and-crafts embroidery project as a model for sustainable STEAM education, exploring how creative craftsmanship can foster environmental awareness in students.
The concept of plasticology
This conceptual paper introduces "plasticology" as a proposed interdisciplinary field that integrates the natural sciences, social sciences, and arts to study the full relationship between humans and synthetic plastics in the environment. The authors argue that microplastic and nanoplastic research must include social dimensions — such as behavior patterns and public awareness — alongside chemistry, ecotoxicology, and environmental science to fully understand and address plastic pollution. They highlight art-science collaboration as a potentially valuable tool for building public awareness and monitoring societal responses to plastic contamination.
Next steps for research on society and microplastics
This perspective paper assessed the contributions of social and behavioral sciences to microplastics research, covering policy analysis, public education, and stakeholder engagement. The authors argue for greater integration of social science methods to understand and reduce plastic pollution at the human systems level.
Défragmenter notre personnalité par le dialogue art-science : pour une co-énonciation écologique, transformative et une éthique joyeuse, allant de soi
This paper is not about microplastics; it is a French-language philosophical essay on personal ecological ethics, proposing that individuals can develop a spontaneous, joyful environmental ethic through inner harmony achieved by integrating scientific and artistic sensibilities.
Facilitating Experience through Fabrication and Blue Biophilic Design
This thesis explores design approaches inspired by the natural world to communicate the urgency of ocean pollution and climate change to the public. Effective communication of environmental problems like microplastic contamination is essential for building the public awareness needed to drive behavioral and policy change.
Advancing a Cleaner Society: Exploring the Impact of Storytelling, Social Media, Humor, and Celebrity Influence in Research Communication for Pollution
This paper explored how storytelling, social media, humor, and celebrity involvement can be used to more effectively communicate environmental pollution threats such as microplastics and biodiversity loss to the public. The review argues that creative and culturally resonant communication strategies are essential for driving behavioral change toward a cleaner society.
Towards a Reduced Pollution Society: Systematic Review on the Role of Storytelling, Social Media, Humor and Celebrities’ Influence for Research Communication
This systematic review explores how storytelling, humor, and celebrity influence can help communicate the dangers of pollution, including microplastics, to the public. The study found that these creative communication strategies can effectively raise awareness and motivate people to change behaviors that contribute to environmental and health problems.
Bridging the gap between microplastic research and social awareness of microplastic pollution through science communication: A call for action
Researchers examined the gap between scientific knowledge of microplastic pollution and public awareness, calling for improved science communication strategies. The study found that despite an enormous body of research documenting microplastics in soil, water, air, and organisms, effective translation of these findings into public understanding and policy action remains inadequate.
From Trash to Fashion: Understanding Wearable Art as Environmental Activism
This paper examines wearable art projects that incorporate plastic waste as a form of environmental activism and material rhetoric, arguing that fashioning trash into garments makes ecological crises tangible and challenges consumer culture through aesthetic engagement.
From Ocean to Table: How Public Awareness Shapes the Fight Against Microplastic Pollution
This literature review synthesized global studies on public awareness of microplastic pollution, finding that while scientific knowledge has expanded significantly, public understanding and behavioral change remain limited. The study identified effective communication strategies and policy approaches to bridge the gap between scientific evidence and public action.
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This artistic installation explores the relationship between humanity and nature through videography, mycology, and ecofeminist philosophy in an immersive ecological experience. It is a humanities artwork rather than a scientific research paper on microplastics.
Coastal Cultural Ecosystem Services: A Bridge between the Natural Ecosystem and Social Ecosystem for Sustainable Development
This review explores how coastal ecosystems provide cultural benefits to people, including recreation, tourism, spiritual connection, and artistic inspiration. While not directly about microplastics, it highlights that pollution and degradation of coastal areas threatens these cultural services, underscoring the broader human well-being costs of environmental contamination including plastic pollution.