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Decentralized Cradle to Cradle
We took a creative approach in crafting our artistic statement. It is the type of artistic statement you’d read on a placard next to the art installation itself. Our documentation contains the technical details. Decentralized Cradle to Cradle Dear friend, In writing this, we are hoping to take you through our process and realization of…
Roba and Hassan Brainstorming
In guiding the project we initially sought out to put some guiding constraints. Some of them came from the syllabus itself and were well aligned to our goal of producing a plastic product that has an age well beyond ourselves. This represents our reuse goal for everything synthetic where we try to increasing the age…
Presentation – Roba
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Plastic Sculpture
In producing a plastic sculpture I sought to reflect the vision for our relationship with everything plastic. If there were a spectrum representing the age of a synthetic plastic, on one end we would have the our single use plastics – the food packaging, the single-use forks… On the other end, we would have synthetic…
Plastic Clothing
I actually knew most clothes were made from ~not cotton but I came to know that in a strange way. Someone passed down a sweater to me a couple of years back and it was distinctly of low quality. Not because of age but it felt very plastic — I could see the individual threads…
Plastic Collection
I was not able to do the trash collection on the scheduled date but that came with the advantage of reading my peer’s experience going to the beach. Due to a mix of factors ranging from cheap labor costs and overall culture, waste is either cleaned very regularly or is disposed of properly by the general public….
Made to be wasted: PET and topologies of disposability
The discussion under the chapter Made to be wasted: PET and topologies of disposability of the book Accumulation: The Material Politics of Plastic by Jennifer Gabrys is a good roundup of not just PET, but plastics overall life cycle and analysis of trends across time. I am 21 and its easy for me to forget…
Initial impressions of precious plastics
I first became aware of the precious plastics movement when Felix Beck introduced it and gave a tour of the lab two years back. Ever since hearing about the movement, I was questioning the precious plastics movement’s impact. A simple way to see the tangible returns is to see the activities the movement is engaged…
Antonios Voulodis at Plastic Fantastic
I first heard about Antonios Voulodis when he was appointed as NYU Abu Dhabi’s inaugural Director of Sustainability and Environmental Stewardship. His talk touched on a broad swath of topics and he discussed it very well by going across the timeline of his career. There were tangential discussions around his experience navigating the working climate…