Waste Stories : Workshop

• Our project “Waste stories” explores our attitudes, understanding and behaviour towards waste in the setting of the contemporary design field. It is part of a larger exploration into the value of making and practical knowledge, in which we as a group of design educators and practitioners, realised that both cannot be separated. Any form of making has to relate to its waste and define an appropriate approach to it. From our experience of working with students and in our own collaboration, we learned that making, practical knowledge and time are three main components that together work as an engine for discussions about waste. In our most recent collaboration “Waste camp”, we dived into the world of industrial waste and explored how the concept of waste changes when it is lifted into a practical craft context. Originally we had only aimed to explore the importance of practical knowledge in a design education that addresses change and sustainable futures, but realized quickly that our attitudes and behaviour towards waste play an important role. The project therefore developed to embrace the following research question: How can practical, artisanal exploration change or extend the understanding and care of waste as a resource? A question we would like to make part of and explore during the workshop we are proposing for the conference. 

Subject headings

HUMANIORA  -- Konst -- Design (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Arts -- Design (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Waste

Storytelling

Collective Making

Craft

Sustainable Futures

Design

Design

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

kon (subject category)

kfu (subject category)