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Basurama collective financed by the Fundación Banco Santander, will develop the project IN LO<3 WE TRASH Gdansk (any plastic lasts longer than eternal love) is an innovative project in Re:Miasto festival a event that will combines research and technology concerning the 3R´s: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle and that will take place in Gdansk, Poland.

IN LO<3 WE TRASH is an artistic project to make the duality Consumption / Waste and its social and environmental impact visible. The objective is to raise awareness of waste production and provide a better understanding of waste as a resource.

Continuing the experience from Madrid, Bangkok, Casablanca and Sao Paulo between other cities IN LO<3 WE TRASH arrive to Gdansk where the results of our daily consumption (plastic bags) will be transformed into expandable artifacts that will generate an scenario that invites interactive participation. 

From 16th to 20th November we will be working in the collective and collaborative construction of those artifacts at LAZNIA Centre for Contemporary Art 2.

On the 21st we will move to Re:Miasto festival where the inflatables will come alive and actually live till the 23rd of November.

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From 10th to 12th October we will be in Bochum, Germany, rethinking along with artists and curators from different countries, about cities in decline.

The industry as a cathedral, the human scale, unemployment increase, a population identified with mass production which led to economic development and that will never come back… Dangerous topics to think about and propose in an enviroment mine infested close to exploit.

More information: DAS DETROIT PROJEKT
Place: Schauspielhaus, Bochum. Germany.
Dates: October 10-12,  2013

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

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.

When: Wednesday, April 3, 2013 – 6:00pm
Where:  Barker Center, Seminar Room 133, Harvard University. 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.