Topic “art”
Sculpted waste
Thinking creatively with clothing waste - Derick Melander transforms them into pieces of art through his sculptures as shown here. According to Derick, New Yorkers create 3,615 pounds of textile waste every 5 mins. Here's to making good use of that.
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Less Is The New More
A sweet mini-site with some fairly obvious though worth remembering bits on sustainable life, by the Plastiki people.
Plastiki? That's up next...
TRAINED AMUSEMENT
An interactive public space for locals in Lima, Peru. Rides made from a scrapped electrical train project. The guys at Basurama have worked on many installations to turn public spaces into happy places.
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GARBAGE CITY
Behold Mokattam, literally known as "The Garbage City".
Before 2003, the Zabbaleen a community of Coptic Christians collected rubbish from the residents of cairo and sorted through their trash to reuse and recycle 80-90 percent of it. An incredible amount of waste recycling. Since the privatization of waste management their livelihoods have been threatened. They say when u walk down the streets of Mokattam you see rows and rows of rooms with mountain piles of rubbish while men, women and children are kneeling, crouching and sorting through it to be resold.
Garbage dreams - a feature film documentary featuring the lives of 2 boys struggling to make a living in the city. Already nominated at the Academy awards this film has also won numerous film awards.
(via wemakemoneynotart)
Ration Me Up
Carbon ration books by The Ministry of Trying to Do Something.
Smart, sweet and a wake-up slap, these carbon ration books are designed on the principle of the 80% carbon quota cut that's set for 2050. 40 coupons should last you a week under these measures - but - under it's quota you'd get about half an hour a day PC time, half an hour of TV, using the dishwasher once a week, and a bath once a week...I think my coupons wouldn't last three days...
The ministry makes it a clear time do to something.
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Frietag's Compost
Upcycled bag frontrunner Frietag cooked up some soup for 100 guests, gave them 100 limited edition compost bags and got those guests to pledge to bring back their compost 3 weeks later. The compost bin began with that days soup scraps.
Part of Vienna Design Week 09, the Urban Gardening installation.
Have. Take. Give. Want. Lose. Need.
Download the barcode stickers, apply to consumer goods, and when scanned - one of these four letter words will appear on the display instead of the price.
A project from 2002's Free Biennial makes you question the worth of the things you buy and the reasons as to why you're buying, hopefully. Very Story of Stuff.
(via Wooster Collective)
Greenmeme
Greenmeme are a collaborative of artists, ecologists, architects, scientists and builders that work through installation to bring information to our environments. They've collected cow farts in a balloon and set up people-parking meters at Park(ing) day green spaces, commenting on the use of waste streams as alternative energy and highlighting the need for more recreational green space. It's all here.
Needs for Sale
A need, Front Door for Habitat for Humanity, $150.
Needs for Sale will paint it up and 100% of the profit from the painting will go to the cause. They have so far supported the likes of New York Cares, Toys for Tots, Habitat for Humanity and Locks of Love.
Unable to contribute on a financial scale, the people behind Needs for Sale have found their own creative way.
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