Culturele Woensdag

Today at our weekly Cultural Wednesday I've learned how to look with a different view to garbage. The last week I had to collect my garbage (except vegetable, fruit and garden waste) and take this today to school. This was the only assignment they gave me, so I had no idea what we would be going to do with it. As an introduction too our assignment the lecturer presented a couple of films and photo’s. I saw ideas how you can recycle, how cradle-to-cradle works and how to breathe new life into junk. After the presentation I needed to do something with my saved up daily food packages. Searching threw my junk I've noticed that I had more plastic than paper. This remembered me of the "soup of plastic" that’s getting bigger in the ocean.

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Trash Vortex

The assignment is to design another object with the waste I have spared up. Because I am interested in knowing what you can do with simple packages I looked up an article from The New York Times that I remember to have read a couple of years ago.

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On the cheap - The New York Times

Sarah Lupton and Carolyn McDaniel, students at Duke University, painted the living room of their two-bedroom suite bright red and used the left-over paint to create wall art in one of the bedrooms.

A set of Ikea shelves were covered with Japanese comic book pages and coated with Minwax clear lacquer by Young Nam Heller, a 24-year-old illustration student at New York City's School of Visual Arts.

Michelle Nicholls, a student at Pratt Institute, created diagonal bookshelves made of wood found on the street.

Ms. Nicholls also used plastic foam vegetable trays as three-dimensional wall art.

Lauren Chapman, a student at Yale School of Architecture, used recycled light bulbs as candleholders.

Drawers, found on a sidewalk without their dresser, were used as wall mountings by Ms. Brumder.

A puffy chandelier in the home of Tyler Velten was made by draping used plastic grocery bags over 11-watt lightbulbs. (A wire-mesh basket around each bulb keeps the chandelier from melting or bursting into flames.)

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During my brainstorm I switched from; ‘recycling a simple package’, in to knowing how much and what else you could make out of a simple piece of plastic. This remembered me about an artist from Holland who had examined with a pig. She explored what a pig was used for. Pig is used in a toothbrush, candy, gloves and any other daily product what would have given the chills to any vegetarian.

PIG 05049 Christien Meindert

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As an Urban student I could think of many new green cradle-to-cradle objects in open space but what I find more interesting is the aware ability to our consummation. I have a nice commercial example that shows that anybody could start in a simple way to recycle. It brings up a message in a nostalgia way.

mona toetje

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