Autobarrios – Self-made-neighborhoods- helps to create an iniciative for urban community development: it uses the collective construction of an urban imaginaire as a tool for empowering the community as a creative body.
Throughout creative practices, the enhancement of local resources and networking, strategies to practice more neighborhood are created.
Plastic Bang! Kok utiliza la bolsa de plástico, inofensivo símbolo cotidiano de hiperconsumo, como singularidad infinitamente pequeña a partir de la cual explosionar y expandirse.
Local Squares is a training for urban planners that aims at identifying and experiencing participatory approaches in local urban contexts.
USW Cairo: Lighting Cairo 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.
http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/14164798 Approaches to waste. 2001-2011 Talk at the seminar “From Landscapes of Extraction to Creative Industries of Organic Matter and Waste” at Graduate School of Design Harvard, Cambridge MA, USA on February 14th 2011.
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.
Using automobile waste and scrap cars as raw material, Basurama conducted an itinerant installation, called Miami Trash Machine (MTM). The MTM is at the same time an extrage object and an interactive sound system. Public was the protagonist in a ludic public event, were everyone was invited to participate. A set of lights, sound sources and sensors […]
Garbage is rapidly becoming one of the main topics in urban society. Not only are municipalities keenly aware of the high environmental cost of waste, but residents are more-and-more conscious of the importance of recycling. Even so, most urban dwellers are still blind to what actually happens to their trash once it is tossed into […]
In September 2011 Basurama organized a workshop at the BMW Guggenheim in New York. The aim of the project was to give the participants an idea about waste. We wanted them to understand waste as a resource of knowledge, that can teach us about economy, anthropology, sociology, as well as to be a resource for creativity. […]
We took part in R.I.P. – Recycling Pervasive Media, a workshop organised by Katherine Moriwaki, Jonah Brucker Cohen, Susan Kennard y Mark Resch at Banff Centre in Canada. 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, […]