Touch, collect, display, order, measure, map, inflate and build with waste!

Cover of The Waste Issue (Q3 2014) of the The Grassroots Mapping Forum.

This text was written for the publication The Grassroots Mapping Forum by Public Lab: #6 about Trash. July 2014.

Full text can accessed at Touch, Collect, Display, Order, Measure, Map, Inflate and Build with Waste! in the Public Lab wiki. The full magazine can also be donwloaded at The Grassroots Mapping Forum Issue #6 The Waste Issue (pdf).  To find more info about the The Grassroots Mapping Forum waste Issue at the PublicLab.org site and order it!

Links to projects cited in the article in order of appearance:

• Touch it: Trash Safari https://basurama.org/safaribasura.htm
• Collect it: Taller ¿Qué es basura? https://basurama.org/video_b04_taller_iau+s.htm
• Display it: Eres lo que tiras (you are what you throw away), Benicássim, Spain 2007. https://basurama.org/en/projects/year/2007-en/you-are-what-you-throw-fib07
• Order it: Se reala plaza. Madrid, Spain 2007. https://basurama.org/b07_se_regala_plaza.htm
• Meause it: Dissecting objects and Waste Packaging Index https://basurama.org/en/projects/dissecting-objects
• Map it: Geotagging waste information in Ruhr Gebiet https://basurama.org/b10_ruhr2010.htm + Saugus ash landfill map http://basurama.org/transtrash/2011/10/19/saugus-ash-landfill-map/
• Build with it: see some interventions wit hreused materials in public space https://basurama.org/en/archive/projects/type-en/public-space-intervention
• Inflate it: Installation in the Anciennes Abattoires of Casablanca, Morocco 2012. https://basurama.org/en/projects/installation-in-the-anciennes-abattoires-of-casablanca
• Love it: Video installation Chainwork https://basurama.org/en/projects/chainwork