#kamworkshops2011 | Map of Clear Broken Glass by Robert Smithson
In 1969 near Vancouver, Robert Smithson attempted to create an earthwork which was never realized:“Island of Broken Glass.” In the middle of the Georgia Straight he intended to dump 100 tons of broken glass onto a small rock island called Miami Islet, completely covering its surface with the shattered material. Due to the swirl of protests stemming from environmentalists and anti-Americanists, the project was suspended by a governmental telegram at the last moment.
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#thevalueofgarbage | A contribution by N. John Habraken.
In the early 1960ties Alfred Heineken, owner of the Heineken breweries noted large heaps of discarded beer when visiting Latin American and African countries. It was company policy to brew all Heineken beer in the Netherlands where quality could be controlled more directly. Where in Holland bottles might be re-used as many as thirty times, those sent overseas were not returned empty. Observing the waste caused by this policy, Heineken decided to produce a beer bottle that could serve as a building brick when empty, thereby responding to the need for shelter in those countries.
In 1963 he asked me to design the WOBO (WOrld BOttle) bottle for him and after several dead end concepts we arrived at a model of which eventually some sixty thousand units were produced by the Royal Glass Works in Leerdam, NL, where much of the heineken bottles came from. The WOBO came in two sizes, one for the 33cl version and another containing 50cl.
#thevalueofgarbage | A Refurbishment Workshop by LambandLamp
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The Value of Garbage, December 2011, Athens
The installation ‘THE BIG CRUNCH’ was build as part of the „stadtfinden“ Architektursommer Darmstadt on the Georg-Büchner-Platz in Darmstadt, on June 2011.
The Big Crunch expands from inside to outside. Common items and domestic remains of civilization such as furniture, refrigerators, wooden items, scrap, timber, windows were assembled organically to create a physical space for social gathering and cohesion.
Un-plug: is the name of a sitting arrangement created from items found during a visit to a waste management facility in Chania. The pieces which form this ‘bench’ are all decomposed parts of electronic sound-and-vision equipment: such as speakers, radio and hi-fi devices, and television sets that are reconstructed in a puzzle logic. Different sitting arrangements are possible using the same or ‘similar items’ as modules. This insistence with ‘false’ archaeologies of audio and image devices was part of a design work that was produced during #kamworkshops2011, by the team of Lia Mori, Myrto Karidi, Eirini Karaoli.
Varoulko: Is the name of a folding chair created from objects found during a visit to a waste management facility in Chania. The folding mechanism was created using a chandelier, a metallic frame and an alumium grid. This is part of a design work that was produced during #kamworkshops2011, by the team of Lilia Mitsiou, Dimitra Tsiami, and Evi Xexaki.
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One of the main references for the House of Contamination is Cedric Price’s „Fun Palace“, a future-embracing design for a cultural centre that is multifunctional, highly technological, and adaptable to multiple needs. The expectations towards technology have changed since then. Today’s keyword is peak oil, standing for a range of bleak scenarios of radical change in the political and economic world that are starting to contaminate the cycles of production and consumption. The House of Contamination is an update on the 20th century cultural center.
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Trashformer: Is a heater collected from the waste management facility in Chania that was decomposed and transformed into a seating object using only a few metal rods to connect its elements in a new position. This is part of a design work that was produced during #kamworkshops2011, by the team of Kostas Georgiou, Iro Mazaraki, Fotis Rovolis, Dimitris Spyropoulos, Ileana Toli, and Evi Zouzoula.
#kamworkshops2011 | a raft from art rubbish by KOKI TANAKA
I made a big trashy raft from left-over/art rubbish from the art center called BankART where next to the canal in yokohama. When I went to the space, i found there was a lot of art rubbish, probably a part of artwork, some kinds of materials there. I supposed to make new video for the theme of “video art” show, but i want to escape from dark room at that time. so I asked my friends to work with me to build up that raft. Then after, we went to the Tokyo bay once on it.
#kamworkshops2011 | WASTE MAN, by Antony Gormley, 2006
WASTE MAN was made over a six-week period at the end of summer 2006 out of about 30 tonnes of waste materials that had been gathered by the Thanet waste disposal services and by local people, and deposited in Dreamland, the area of Margate next to the sea and close to the station that had traditionally been the site of a vast funfair.
Some works are made in wax to be cast in bronze; this was made in domestic waste to be cast in fire.
For me this work was a collective body (similar to HAVMANN or the ANGEL OF THE NORTH) made from the raw materials of people’s home lives - beds, tables, dining chairs, toilet seats, desks, pianos and rubbish (all the limiting baggage of the householder),
