I enrolled in this class rather last minute but I’m honestly glad to have done so. During these brief three weeks I have learned more about not only the detrimental impacts that various forms of plastic have on our environment but have also become more aware of my own plastic consumption. From the very first…
Hilina Bayew: Final Project Presentation (Ali, Hamad, Hilina)
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Hilina Bayew: Artistic Statement (Ali, Hamad, Hilina)
The Heirloom scroll aims at incorporating plastic waste into the core of its design in order to make a product that generations to come will not want to part with. In our design, we make use of plastic bags and melted bottle caps to give families a timeless heirloom that they can add on to…
Hilina Bayew: Final Project Brainstorming (Ali, Hamad, Hilina)
Our group consists of myself, Ali and Hamad. We took a while to carefully think through the prompt in order to come up with a product that is both timeless and made from plastic. Our aim was to not only create a product but in the process to teach our grandchildren and further generations…
Hilina Bayew: Fashion design by Anouk Wipprecht (Presentation)
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Hilina Bayew: Sculpture – ‘Caught Red Handed’
Caught Red Handed When we went to Park Hyatt to collect trash we noticed it was rather clean and some of the guides informed us that turtles were quite an attraction for guests. These turtles along with various discussions we have had in class inspired our trash sculpture ‘Caught Red Handed’. This art piece is meant…
Hilina Bayew: Guest Speaker – Heather Kaye
To start off I was extremely shocked to find out that the clothes we wear were in fact made out of various types of plastic. I simply assumed that polyester was just another type of fabric but it never crossed my mind that it could possibly mean a form of plastic. When this first came…
Hilina Bayew: Beach Clean-Up
Our group had ideas about what we wanted to make for our sculpture so we went into the beach cleanup with an idea of the various objects we could make use of. Initially I went in expecting to find countless Nurdles, plastic bottles, bottle caps, plastic bags, food wrappers and cigarette buds as these are…
Hilina Bayew: Accumulation: The Material Politics of Plastic (Made to be wasted: PET and topologies of disposability) reading response
This chapter ‘Made to be Wasted‘ sheds some much needed insight on just how drastically society has shifted to feeding into consumerism. Previously, I had never stopped to think about what my grandparents or great-grandparents made use of in the absence of plastic. I simply lived my day to day life, making use of countless…
Lab Report: Potato Starch & Gelatin (Ali, Hamad, Hilina, Hassan)
Lab report – Bio-materials Name: Ali Al Dhanhani, Hamad Bin Fahad, Hilina Bayew, Hassan AbuHaliga e-mail: aha377@nyu.edu, hbf245@nyu.edu, hb1741@nyu.edu Material: Potato Starch Introduction or Purpose: This lab aims to create a cheaper, more available plastic alternative. We incorporated Potato starch and Gelatin respectively as the main ingredient of the new plastic. This experiment deals…
Hilina Bayew – Guest Speaker: Adele Hatha
Today’s speaker, Adele Hatha, shed an interesting perspective through her experience with Precious Plastic. She spoke about the various prototypes they had to test out and tweak to find the perfect fit to shred the plastic. I found it quite interesting that the motors were more efficient yet they made use of the bikes since…
Hilina Bayew – Guest Speaker: Antonios Vouloudis
It was extremely interesting and informative to hear Antonios Vouloudis speaking about the economic stimulus program launched within the UAE (Ghadan 21). I really enjoyed how he touched upon the welfare and human satisfaction aspects of sustainability. I had prior knowledge regarding the reflective/absorptive properties of certain colors (eg. black and white) but I never…