Basurama: a framework for designing collectively with waste

Pablo Rey Mazón. Basurama.basurama.org

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April 12rd 2013Washington, DC. USA.

Reclaim + Remake Symposium 2013

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Establish a framework to work collectively with waste in public space.

Basurama: a framework for designing collectively with waste

Pablo Rey Mazón. Basurama.

Basura = trash ama = love-orama = wide view of

Basurama = wide view of + love trash

Waste is a powerful affordable resource.

Working collectively requires:Listening to the others needs.Taking time, location, material constrains in account.

1. Waste as a wide concept

2. What can we do with waste?

3. How to work collaboratively with waste?

1. Waste as a wide concept

Natural resources that have been wasted.

Waste is a resource in the wrong place.

Things that have lost their name.

Whatever is tagged as waste.

#Waste

Whatever is tagged as waste.

#Waste

Whatever is tagged as waste.

#Waste

Whatever is tagged as waste.

#Waste

"Through the garbage collection system of Mexico City it is possible to make an accurate radiograph of the entire political system of the republic, its power relations, their corrupt situations, etc.."

Héctor Castillo Berthier

Waste is information.

"Through the garbage collection system of Mexico City it is possible to make an accurate radiograph of the entire political system of the republic, its power relations, their corrupt situations, etc.."

Héctor Castillo Berthier

Waste is information.

Waste is information.Waste is information.

Waste is a relative concept.

Waste is information.

Waste doesn't exist.

Waste has many scales/sizes/shapes.

Waste = People that work with waste

Los Ángeles, CA

1. What is waste?

2. What can we do with waste?

3. Working collaboratively with waste?

2. What can we do with waste?

A. Document + Visualize + Analyze

B. Reuse

A. Document + Visualize + Analyze

Multimedia approach: from objects to landscape

Trash Safari. Madrid, 2005

You are what you throw away. Benicassim, Spain. 2007

You are what you throw away. Benicassim, 2007 with Iris Giménez Gil

Waste Packaging Index. Berlin, 2012 with Dietmar Offenhuber

Waste Packaging Index. Berlin, 2012

Waste Packaging Index (WPI) = Packaging

Total Weight of the product

Waste Packaging Index. Berlin, 2012

6000km.org. 2006-2012

How to document waste landscape?

Residential Francisco Hernández + Toll Highway. Seseña, Toledo. Spain.

Ciduad de Valdeluz. Guadalajara, Spain.

6000km exhibition at Centro Huarte. Navarra. Spain. 2011

... just panorama photos?

PAU Ensanche de Vallecas. Madrid. Spain, at 6000km.org web site.

Web+Texts

meipi.org/6000km

Map

Germany, 2010 http://basurama.org/b10_ruhr2010.htm

Geotagging reusable waste in Ruhr.

http://basurama.org/maps/ruhr/

Geotagging reusable waste in Ruhr.

PAU Ensanche de Vallecas. Madrid. Spain.

...what more?

PAU Ensanche de Vallecas. Madrid. Spain.

PAU Ensanche de Vallecas. Madrid. Spain.

Real estate bubble contemporary ruins

PAU Ensanche de Vallecas. 2013

Aerial photography

publiclaboratory.org

PAU Ensanche de Vallecas. 2013

Sort hundreds of images

Ruins at PAU Ensanche de Vallecas aerial photo at Public Laboratory web site.

http://mapknitter.org/maps/saugus-incinerator-landfill

Saugus Ash Landfill. Saugus, Massachusetts.

http://basurama.org/transtrash/2011/10/19/saugus-ash-landfill-map/

Satellite imaginery

Google Maps

http://meipi.org/cambridgewaste

Edit the map. Contribute to an open database.

OpenStreetMap

B. ReuseReusing materialsand public space

Juego Chachi. Leandro Lattes (El vivero) + Basurama. 2005

Juego Chachi. Leandro Lattes (El vivero) + Basurama. 2005

Spermöla 2004, 2005, 2006

Spermöla = Yard sale in public space

Spermöla 2004, 2005, 2006

Free Shop. Manresa, Spain. 2010. With Makea.

Free Shop. Manresa, Spain. 2010. With Makea

3. Working collaboratively with waste?

RUS RESIDUOS URBANOS SÓLIDOS

URBAN SOLID WASTE

RUSA series of chained projects developed by Basurama and the local cultural-social collaborators of every iteration of the project.

Every time the project ended with an action or intervention in the public space, usually degraded, and was centered in working urban waste (Basurama 2011).

Funded by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) through the Red de Centros Culturales de la Cooperación Española in Latin America.

Timeline of a RUS project

1. Research trip-Local Materials, Techniques and Tools-Intervention spaces-Urban conflicts-Contact local agents: artists, neighbors, municipality.

2. Review information and pre-design -Establish a local main collaborator

3. Intervention trip-Production: materials, tools.-Design and co-design: iterations depending on negotiations, materials and actors-Construction: Workshop and prototype with locals-Action/intervention/installation-Unmount.

RUS is based on:

-Reactivation of public space

-Local community

-Waste

-Reuse

Public Space

-In danger/threaten-Inadequate or poor maintenance-Privatization-Lack of use-Abandonment

Local Community

-Wide range of stakeholders Neighbors, artists, students, waste pickers, designers, municipalities, institutions

-Different involvement:punctual support to full Involvement

Waste

-Source of information-Low cost-Location: harvest map-Value vs Price

Reuse

Ubiquity of industrialized products

RUS Asunción. Paraguay. 2008 with Sonia Carísimo and Francisco Tomboly

RUS Asunción. Paraguay. 2008 with Sonia Carísimo and Francisco Tomboly

RUS Asunción + Varsaw 2010

Warsaw, Polen. 2010

RUS Buenos Aires. Todos somos cartoneros (We are all waste pickers) 2009

RUS Buenos Aires. Guide to create cooperatives. With Eloisa Cartonera.

RUS Buenos Aires. Guide to create cooperatives. With Eloisa Cartonera.

La ciudad de los niños. Cabanyal, Valencia (2009) with Arquitectura se mueve.

RUS Córdoba. Tejedoras Urbanas (Urban knitters) (2009) with Quinua Photos: Quinua

RUS Córdoba. Tejedoras Urbanas (Urban knitters) (2009) with Quinua

Video: Juan Andres Mancuello http://youtu.be/v3uM1cNpOMc

RUS Córdoba. Tejedoras Urbanas (Urban knitters) (2009) with Quinua

Car parts.

RUS Mexico City. 2008

Car Tires

RUS LIMASELF MADE AMUSEMENT “GHOST TRAIN” PARK

Initial research

Harvest map

Spaces

Uncompleted Metropolitan railway.

Photo: Sara Fernández Deustch

“El Tren fantasma” (ghost train)

-Elevated metropolitan railway project-Started construction in 1986-Opened 10km in 1990. -For 20 years abandoned elevated infrastructure.-Promised public transportation system that never arrived.

Open access?

Open workshop. Skill sharing

Collaborators

-Christians Luna (visual artist)-Surquillo District Municipality-Sandra Nakamura (visual artist)-Camila Bustamante (graphic designer) -El Cartón (architecture students collective) -C.H.O.L.O. (artist collective based on Lima suburbs)-El Cartón (architecture students collective) -Playstationvagon (graffiti writers/urban artists)-El Codo (graffiti writer/urban artist)-Motivando Corazones collective (non profit organization) -María Pía Raschio and Diego Alonso -Rossell (artist)-Local group of boy scouts

RUS Lima, Peru. 2010

RUS Lima, Peru. 2010

Aucahuasi. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tren_Eléctrico_viaducto_inconcluso.jpg

… a week later

Image: C.H.O.L.O.

Second iteration of the project driven by collaborators.

>Poster announcing self-build workshop.

Parque Autoarmable (Self-build playground)“Nueva Esperanza” in Pachacutec, Ventanilla.

Developed by C.H.O.L.O., Christians Luna y the community of sector C1 de Pachacutec

Photos: C.H.O.L.O.

Parque Autoarmable Nueva Esperanza. Lima Photos: C.H.O.L.O.

How can short projects change the way society approach to waste and reuse?

How can short projects change the way society approach to waste and reuse?

fun

How to work for a systemic change?

Change policies reused materialspublic space use/construction

Change construction processesself-build

Autobarrios. San Cristobal de los Ángeles, Madrid. 2013

Long term involvement.

zzComing soon:Public audit of wasteMIT Meda Lab FestivalApril 20th 2013

http://basurama.org/transtrash/2013/04/07/step-by-step-guide-to-picture-2-tons-of-waste/