Public waste classification and data visualization
A Dress for Lady Gaga, a project. The idea was born after loading Raquel’s car with thousands of earphones assigned by Renfe (Spanish Railway Company) to carry out a reuse workshop coordinated by basurama (www.basurama.org) reuse and entupunto (http://entupunto.blogspot.com.es/). If we think about a fashion icon, about new costumes, about the connection between headphones and music … Lady Gaga just seemed obvious.
The dress it is not only a dress, but a musical instrument, and a loudspeaker of more than two hundred of loudspeakers.
All the earphones used to weave the dress are single-use, non-recyclable and almost never reused. Their usable time does not exceed three hours, the time of a train ride from Madrid to Barcelona, for example. The price of each piece in the market is between 0.1 and 0.3 USD. A manufacture of this kind of product has the ability to supply 1 million a month of earphones and the shipping time is of only 15 days to anywhere in the world.
Some details of the dress:
For making the dress we used 235 earphones, each of which measures extended 2.15 m, which means that the ball of headphones used measured 535.8 meters.
It took about 37 hours to weave (much more to design and actually knit it, as we have to make and unmake till it has been perfect).
The dress weighs 2,720 kg, is 78 cm long, 45 cm hip and corresponds to a size 36-38.
Our goal is that Lady Gaga get the dress, our ideal, that she wear it.
Promotional video: http://vimeo.com/68639659
twitter acount: @VestidoLadyGaga
THE PROJECT
Autobarrios – Self-made-neighborhoods- is a project that stimulates our collective imagination, our autonomy and our ability to deal with our daily networks and the surrounding environment.
It creates strategies to practice more “neighborhood” through the enhancement of local resources and applied creativity. Autobarrios is a tool to facilitate the construction of a community urban development initiative, by creating a network of people and resources that shape this initiative.
THE FRAMEWORK
The project reflects on the scale of the neighborhood and the current state of its essence, which, we understand, is based on relationships, daily life and identity.
Autobarrios is a contextual tool designed to grow in different neighborhoods taking into account their own particularities. It relies on outreach work and creative practices to transform the existing social and spatial relationships into a dense and culturally diverse metropolis.
¡Reinvent your neighborhood!
THE TOOLS
> Applied Creativity
The project believes in applied creativity as a great tool for community development. The goal is not only to build something useful but activate the creative potential and catapult the imagination of the participants as citizens, builders and users.
> Revaluation of local resources
Autobarrios is an example of city building shared between different professional areas and citizens. In this sense, one of the key project is coordinating a networking between all possible actors that can, from different areas, shape, enrich and enable the smooth running of the project.
> Networking
Coordination and addition of skills and collective knowledge creation are a powerful tool to perform community initiatives and ensure their implementation.
REALIZED PROJECTS
Autobarrios SanCristóbal
in process from January 2012.
in General