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Public waste audit at the MIT Media Lab Festival
We are preparing a public intervention for the MIT Media Lab Festival in Cambridge, MA, USA for this Friday April 20th.
The project is a public waste audit: to make it comprehensible and visually compelling. If you want more information check Trans Trash blog.
Defining a framework for designing collectively with waste at Harvard
On April 3rd we'll be giving a talk about Basurama: a framework for designing collectively with waste at the Mahindra Center for the Humanities/Barker Center invited Cultural Agents Initiative and Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. More info.
Lost in London
From 7th to 12th of March we will be walking around London streets. We are looking for people, spaces, places, social research laboratories, universities, etc. to meet, share, hang out and, if lucky, share a European project we are developing.
If you know of interesting places to visit or people to meet, send us a twit to @ basurama under the hashtag # BinLondon will be very grateful.
Buy Me!
The 6th March we will participate in the MA Programme in Social Practice and the Creative Environment, Limerick School of Art & Design, Ireland.
La ful de Estambul (project for the Istanbul Design Biennial 2012)
Inflatable bubble monster made out of plastics discarded during the mounting of the Istanbul 2012 Design Biennial.
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El Hospital de Objetos Rotos
El Hospital de Objetos Rotos está situado en la Quinta Avenida, en Park Slope. Flanqueado por una lavandería automáti... -
La estética del cuidado: from “there I fix it” to “Kintsukuroi”
“¡Cómo nos gusta cuidar de la basura! Es como lavarla, peinarla y perfumarla, vestirla de domingo!”... -
Ramón una rubia de impresión
En sus clases Ramón podía volver loco al mas pintado con el puntero láser Ramón López de Lucio se jubila este veran...
What will happen if a giant rubbish wave invades the malecon? Probably, it will be impossible not to notice it, and probably everyone should do something to deal with it. This is the starting point of the project and the objective was to cover the malecon in its full extension with a wave formed with PET plastic previously recollected from Santo Domingo garbage dump.
From September 30th to October 23rd 2011 in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge.
USW Niamey: let’s do it together! is an educational training project that had formed 60 volunteers from 12 cultural centers. The objective was working with local resources for the design and construction of 12 playgrounds.
During the formation process we had worked with pallets, tires, cans and plastic bags and the result was a self-constructed playground in the Cultural Center Oumarou Ganda (CCOG) Niamey, Niger, Africa. December 5-20, 2011.
USW Cairo: Ramadan lights is a project for the design and construction of low cost prototypes to activate public spaces in the city of Cairo.
The prototypes were constructed during a workshop with young Egyptian professionals, mostly architects and urban artists.
After design and construction, the prototypes were set up in two urban environments in order to test the feasibility, performance and interaction of the constructed objects with public space (both people and environment).
Cairo, Egypt, Africa. From 15th June to 8th July 2012.
Project focused on researching and building cycles out of wasted bicycles. We organised an experimental workshop led by Mara Berkhout and did different actions in public space during the Semana Naranja events in Madrid.
How much waste do we buy? Analyzing and visualizing how much waste we buy everyday. Co-organized with Dietmar Offenhuber in the Guggenheim Lab at Berlin. Starting with the Waste Packaging Index.
Intervention in Cavalcavia Bussa. We reuse domestic furniture to create new ways to use and take up the public space.
R.I.P. - Recycling Pervasive Media, Intervening in Planned Obsolescence, and Practicing Technological Sustainability tackled the issues of recycling, art making, and sustainability practices. Artists, researchers, practitioners, academics, municipal workers, community leaders, and professionals were invited to explore new ways of working with municipal waste management facilities to reclaim "good garbage".
Local Squares is a training for urban planners that aims at identifying and experiencing participatory approaches in local urban contexts.
Urban Solid Waste in Lima, Peru. February 2010. Reusing the abandoned electric railroad track with car tires
